Greetings brethren,
I have recently begun reading John Colquhoun's book "A View of Saving Faith". Now when I chose it I knew he was a marrow man and that the marrow was a little controversial, but did not think much of it.
However, just in the first chapter, he disagrees with an earlier good...
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I think the title says most of what needs to be said about the content:
I have read this book off the website of the University of Michigan (here is a link). This book, as the title suggests, goes through the doctrines around Covenant Theology, with a particular focus on those issues Blake saw...
Thomas Blake, in his book on covenant theology, argues in chapter 40 out of various passages that those who are professed believers are under a covenant of grace, and not of works, and are judged as covenant breakers, not as the heathen who are without God in the world.
This leads, naturally...
"It is alone faith, and none of these graces that puts out it selfe to receive it; love in a graciously disposed soul, cleaves to Christ for communion, but receives him not for justification. These
two stand as relatives, there is no soul entituled to this righteous∣nesse, but by faith; and...
Blake's work is a master treatise on Covenant Theology. This is a tome of the highest caliber on a topic that is most needful to be understood by the Evangelical Church today – Covenant Theology and inclusion in the Covenant of God.
Blake was one of the Westminster Divines. He wrote this work...
I've been working on a 700 page monster by Rev. Thomas Blake on covenant theology.
We simply cannot have enough good CT books out there.
It is a quintessential Westminster view and a really great work overall.
It is finally "done".
Vindiciae Foederis, A Treatise of the Covenant of God...