The Reformed Doctrine Of Predestination
by Loraine Boettner D.D.
Copyright 1932
In this mamoth (29 chapters) work by Boettner (Reformed, Presbyterian), he examines the doctrine of Predestination. He looks at the plan of God, the Sovereignty, Providence, and foreknowledge of God. He examines this doctrine in relation to Calvinism. He also answers objections to the doctrine.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Statement of the Doctrine
Chapter 3 God Has a Plan
Chapter 4 The Sovereignty of God
Chapter 5 The Providence of God
Chapter 6 The Foreknowledge of God
Chapter 7 Outline of Systems
Chapter 8 The Scriptures are the Final Authority By Which Systems are to be Judged
Chapter 9 A Warning Against Undue Speculation
Chapter 10 The Five Points of Calvinism & Total Inability
Chapter 11 Unconditional Election
Chapter 12 Limited Atonement
Chapter 13 Efficacious Grace
Chapter 14 The Perseverance of the Saints
Chapter 15 That it is Fatalism
Chapter 16 That it is Inconsistent with the Free Agency and Moral Responsibility of Man
Chapter 17 That it Makes God the Author of Sin
Chapter 18 That is Discourages All Motives to Exertion
Chapter 19 That it Represents God as a Respecter of Persons or as Unjustly Partial
Chapter 20 That it is Unfavorable to Good Morality
Chapter 21 That it Precludes a Sincere Offer of the Gospel to the Non-Elect
Chapter 22 That it Contradicts the Universalistic Scripture Passages
Chapter 23 Salvation By Grace
Chapter 24 Personal Assurance that One is Among the Elect
Chapter 25 Predestination in the Physical World
Chapter 26 A Comparison with the Mohammedan Doctrine of Predestination
Chapter 27 The Practical Importance of the Doctrine
Chapter 28 Calvinism in History
Chart: Calvinism vs. Arminianism
Read this tract by Pastor Cox about the divine use of sickness explains how God works with sickness to remind man of his limited time on earth, the consequences of sin, etc.
In this tract Pastor Cox explains how God positively uses sickness to help us turn our thoughts and attention to the eternal. We get so involved in our daily lives sometimes that we forget that our life is but a vapor on this earth, soon to no longer be. God uses sickness as a severe warning that our time is running out, and we need to live as though every moment has a forward view towards eternity. How we spend our life is important.
Sections:
1. Understanding that God is God
2. Sickness because of Sin
3. Warning about approaching Death
4. Warning about Human weakness
5. The Error of the Sick
6. God listens to those who ask in sincerity
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
There is an attitude within much of Christianity that sickness in any form is bad, and God does not have anything to do with it. For these Christans, they ask God to take the sickness away, and sometimes (as though it was their right to be health) that they demand God to remove their sickness. The reality of life is that they continue ill, and many have a crisis of faith over this. For them, God is impotent, or God does not love them. In other words, their confidence, faith, and love of God depends on God always sending them good things. But this is not how the Bible indicates life is. God uses calamity and sickness for His own purposes and we have to understand this (and accept it).Please support our tract ministry by donating on the tract website (see sidebar). Because of your donations we can offer these tracts online, and for free. Read the Tract CH34
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