Comments for Reformata http://blog.solagratia.org Dealing with issues in reformed theology. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on A Quick Note on Machen by Denise http://blog.solagratia.org/2008/05/10/a-quick-note-on-machen/#comment-99606 Denise Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:32:29 +0000 http://blog.solagratia.org/?p=141#comment-99606 Interesting... The whole time I was there I don't think I ever heard anyone pronounce it correctly. Interesting…
The whole time I was there I don’t think I ever heard anyone pronounce it correctly.

]]> Comment on A Quick Note on Machen by Ken Hicks http://blog.solagratia.org/2008/05/10/a-quick-note-on-machen/#comment-98182 Ken Hicks Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:39:34 +0000 http://blog.solagratia.org/?p=141#comment-98182 I used to live in Portland, OR and there is a suburb named Gresham (pronounced like it looks) so I believe I am excused from my former error. :) I used to live in Portland, OR and there is a suburb named Gresham (pronounced like it looks) so I believe I am excused from my former error. :)

]]> Comment on “Coram Deo” - The Epistemological Function of the Covenant Concept by Ruben http://blog.solagratia.org/2006/08/21/%e2%80%9ccoram-deo%e2%80%9d-the-epistemological-function-of-the-covenant-concept/#comment-80999 Ruben Sun, 25 May 2008 02:26:56 +0000 http://blog.solagratia.org/2006/08/21/%e2%80%9ccoram-deo%e2%80%9d-the-epistemological-function-of-the-covenant-concept/#comment-80999 Here is something of a different take on the relation of the CoR to the CoW. John Brown of Haddington, in <em>An Essay Towards the Easy, Plain, Practical, and Extensive Explication of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism</em>, under Q. 20. <blockquote>Q. Is the covenant of grace, and that of redemption, one and the same covenant? -A. Yes; the scripture mentions only two covenants that regards man's eternal state, of which the covenant of works is one, and therefore the covenant of grace must be the other: and the blood of Christ is in scripture called the blood of the covenant, but never of the covenants, Gal iv.24.30. Q. How do you further prove that what some call the covenant of grace made with believers, and distinct from the covenant of redemption, is no proper covenant? -A. Because it hath no proper condition, faith being as much promised as any other blessing, Psal. cx. 3. [And skipping a bit...] Q. Is the making of it the same which some divines call the covenant of redemption? -A. Yes, Psal. lxxxix. 3.</blockquote> Here is something of a different take on the relation of the CoR to the CoW.

John Brown of Haddington, in An Essay Towards the Easy, Plain, Practical, and Extensive Explication of the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism, under Q. 20.

Q. Is the covenant of grace, and that of redemption, one and the same covenant?
-A. Yes; the scripture mentions only two covenants that regards man’s eternal state, of which the covenant of works is one, and therefore the covenant of grace must be the other: and the blood of Christ is in scripture called the blood of the covenant, but never of the covenants, Gal iv.24.30.
Q. How do you further prove that what some call the covenant of grace made with believers, and distinct from the covenant of redemption, is no proper covenant?
-A. Because it hath no proper condition, faith being as much promised as any other blessing, Psal. cx. 3.
[And skipping a bit...]
Q. Is the making of it the same which some divines call the covenant of redemption?
-A. Yes, Psal. lxxxix. 3.

]]> Comment on A Quick Note on Machen by Camden Bucey http://blog.solagratia.org/2008/05/10/a-quick-note-on-machen/#comment-75686 Camden Bucey Thu, 15 May 2008 22:50:58 +0000 http://blog.solagratia.org/?p=141#comment-75686 That's actually where I learned how to pronounce Gresham too. That’s actually where I learned how to pronounce Gresham too.

]]> Comment on A Quick Note on Machen by Jeff Waddington http://blog.solagratia.org/2008/05/10/a-quick-note-on-machen/#comment-75685 Jeff Waddington Thu, 15 May 2008 22:35:20 +0000 http://blog.solagratia.org/?p=141#comment-75685 I remember reading this factual tidbit in a footnote/endnote in Ned Stonehouse's biography of Machen and thankfully have never mispronounced Machen's middle name since. It is one of my little victories. I remember reading this factual tidbit in a footnote/endnote in Ned Stonehouse’s biography of Machen and thankfully have never mispronounced Machen’s middle name since. It is one of my little victories.

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