Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The Scriptures of truth give no uncertain sound; there is nothing indefinite or ambiguous in them, no collision between the statements and descriptions of one inspired writer and another. The goodness of which they speak is a goodness which they describe in all its parts, and all its principles, and all its manifestations, with the most perfect harmony and mutual agreement—a goodness which is the same in every age and under every dispensation, in every rank of life and every state of society. ...
Goodness, in the Scripture sense of the word, is holiness; it is the goodness which God enjoins, and of which he himself presents the most perfect pattern—the goodness which, begun on earth in the regeneration of the true Christian, is accepted and approved through Christ Jesus, and which, increasing with the increase of God, is perfected at last in his presence in heaven. ...
For more, see Patrick MacFarlan on the scriptural definition of a good man.
Goodness, in the Scripture sense of the word, is holiness; it is the goodness which God enjoins, and of which he himself presents the most perfect pattern—the goodness which, begun on earth in the regeneration of the true Christian, is accepted and approved through Christ Jesus, and which, increasing with the increase of God, is perfected at last in his presence in heaven. ...
For more, see Patrick MacFarlan on the scriptural definition of a good man.
