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[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

Of all men none is so culpably wicked as an unconverted minister, and none will be judged so severely. It is a solemn saying about such a one, "He resembles an unskillful pilot--he does not perish alone.” -
JC Ryle

[Brian Onstead @brianonstead]

"The justification that takes place at the beginning of the Christian life is the justification of the last day" ~Sinclair Ferguson

[Brian Onstead @brianonstead]

From the very moment we become Christians, we are as righteous in the sight of God as Jesus Christ is ~Sinclair Ferguson

[Patrick Abendroth @PatAbendroth]

"So the moment you trusted in Christ alone, you were declared righteous by God because He credited to you the perfect righteousness of Christ. You will never be more or less righteous, regardless of your performance" Jerry Bridges

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

“the righteousness of Christ, received by faith alone, constitutes the sole meritorious ground upon which our salvation, in all of its stages, rests” - A.A. Hodge

[Brian Onstead @brianonstead]

"I believe that God, because of Christ’s satisfaction, will no longer remember any of my sins or my sinful nature which I need to struggle against all my life. Rather, by grace God grants me the righteousness of Christ to free me forever from judgment"
~Heidelberg Answer 56

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

@blpjr77 Praying

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

Beware of those who want to own a term without the content that commonly goes with it, or content without the term by which it is commonly known.

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

For every one example you can give of a Christian who followed a feeling that led to some remarkable event, there are ten thousand examples of Christians enslaved as a result of taking a feelings-based approach to the Christian life.

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

for without the word [Jesus] has no intercourse with us, nor we with him - Calvin

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

for [the Spirit] has not been given for the purpose of harassing us with trembling or of tormenting us with anxiety; but...that having calmed every perturbation, and restoring our minds to a tranquil state, he may stir us up to call on God with confidence and freedom - Calvin

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

My favourite interviewer is a wonderful writer. I hope it’s okay for a New Zealander to say this of an American but @p_m_robinson you’re a national treasure. Merry Christmas and looking forward to more Uncommon Knowledge in 2020 :)

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

“faith is a lost, helpless condemned sinner’s casting himself on Christ for salvation; and the qualified man is no such person” - Robert Traill

[Brian Onstead @brianonstead]

You cannot affirm sola fide if you believe that works are in any sense an instrument (not just meritorious) to getting to heaven. The reformed affirmed that faith is the sole instrument (2 LCF 11.2; WCF 11.2).

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

"In sanctification, too, it is exclusively faith that saves us” - Herman Bavinck

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

"[Good works] do not serve to acquire eternal life" - Bavinck

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

“before one can truly speak of good works, one’s dread before God as Judge has to be transmuted into the consciousness of his fatherly love” - Herman Bavinck

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

“From the Reformation to the present day, the battle for a biblical doctrine of justification has turned upon an understanding of sola fide” - David VanDrunen

[happilyunoriginal @ryanvinten]

The judgments of history seldom coincide with the tempers of the moment - Adlai Stevenson