Separated at birth for kingdom glory

Luke 1:15 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb…   What did Mary actually proclaim to her cousin that made JtB leap? What the angel had told her about Messiah.   Luke writes of JtB:   “Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in...

Knowledge is vital

“This new life, therefore, manifests itself in new views of God, of Christ, of sin, of holiness, of the world, of the gospel, and of the life to come; in short, of all those truths which God has revealed as necessary to salvation. This spiritual illumination is...

F. Turretin on the Seed Faith of Infants

I. Concerning the subject of faith a question is moved as to infants. There are two extremes: (1) in defect, by the Anabaptists, who deny all faith to infants and under this pretext exclude them from baptism; (2) in excess, by the Lutherans, who, to oppose themselves...