Notes
Notes
1. Divine Sovereignty
2. Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
, Lk 22:22: “For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined (to his death), but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!” Cf. Acts 2:23.
argues in Conversions: Psychological and Spiritual (I.V.F., 1959), against the thesis of Dr. William Sargant.
3. Evangelism
Comforting Afflicted Consciences, 3rd. ed. (1640), p. 185.
the 1959 reprint of The Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen. Owen’s book is a classical discussion of the complex questions that the controversy about “limited atonement” involves. The central issue does not concern the value of the atonement, considered in itself, nor the availability of Christ to those who would trust him as their Savior. All agree that no limit can be set to the intrinsic worth of Christ’s death, and that Christ never casts out those who come to him. The cleavage is over the question, whether the intention of the Father and the Son in the great transaction of Calvary was to save any more than actually are saved. There is no room here to open up this elaborate question; and in any case, nothing in the text depends one way or the other on the answer that one gives to it.
Reconciliation, p. 287; my italics.
4. Divine Sovereignty and Evangelism
, e.g., Gen 1:20; 14:3ff. God’s thele4ma is spoken of in this sense in Rom 1:10; 15:32; Rev 4:11, etc.
, Ye Sinners,” Hymns II (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1976), p. 169. The whole hymn is a magnificent statement of the gospel invitation.
, The Glory of Christ, in The Works of John Owen, ed. William Goold (1850), 1:422.
God in this text is the act of believing, or the fact of being-saved-through-believing (commentators divide), does not affect our point.
, 10:1; cf. Ezek 36:26-27; Jn 6:44-45; 1 Cor 2:10ff.; 2 Cor 4:6; Phil 2:13.
Be,” Hymns II (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1976), p. 88.