𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖇 𝕯𝖎𝖝𝖔𝖓 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍

The question is not (1) Are good works pleasing and acceptable to God and do they obtain from God the reward of life? For this we willingly grant to our opponents, provided a gratuitous and not a due reward is meant.
— Turretin

Biel defines merit to be “a work imputable to praise” (i.e., worthy of praise). If our opponents would be content with this meaning, there would be no controversy. For no one denies that the good works of the believer are worthy of praise.
— Turretin

Are good works necessary to salvation? We affirm
― Francis Turretin

This section, placed not long after an extensive defense of justification sola fide, will be good.

The latest Calvin and Cage, per Nano Banana 2

In dealing with the question of the Septuagint's authority, Turretin ends up participating in a long-standing debate about when men before the Flood went through puberty.

“Therefore the Angelic Doctor says you should take a bath when you’re sad.”

calebsmith.substack.com/p/high-of-75

The canon of faith differs from the canon of ecclesiastical reading. We do not speak here of the canon in the latter sense, for it is true that these apocryphal books were sometimes read even publicly in the church.
— Francis Turretin

Caffeine, creatine, and cetirizine

Romans 2:7 says God will give eternal life “to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality.”

I do wonder how many of us think of our Christian walk as at all seeking for glory, honor, and immortality.

Nature is, indeed, good, if we look upon it as it came from the hands of God, and before it became corrupted by sin; and even now, nature is good as to its substance, and as it was made of God; but not as to its qualities, and as it has become corrupted.
― Zacharias Ursinus

Although reason & faith are of different classes (1 natural, 1 supernatural), they are not however opposed, but hold a certain relation & are subordinate to each other. Reason is perfected by faith & faith supposes reason, upon which to found the mysteries of grace.
― Turretin

Although the human understanding is very dark, yet there still remains in it some rays of natural light and certain first principles of unquestionable truth: such as, the whole is greater than its part, an effect supposes a cause, to be & not to be at the same time are incompatible, etc.
― Turretin

Thus here the first principles of nature (known of themselves) must be distinguished from the conclusions and conceptions of reason which are deduced from those principles. The former are true and sure; the latter obscure, often erroneous and fallible.
― Francis Turretin

When God is set forth as the object of theology, he is not to be regarded simply as God in himself (for thus he is incomprehensible to us), but as revealed and as he has been pleased to manifest himself to us in his word.
― Francis Turretin

Are the certain first principles of religion common to all men? [W]e grant that in natural theology by the light of nature some such do exist upon which supernatural theology is built (for example, that there is a God, that he must be worshipped, etc.).
― Francis Turretin

Take this premise from Turretin: “For what is commonly and immutably in all men without exception must be in them naturally because natural things agree in all and are immutable.
Now add a minor premise about something commonly and immutably found in all men without exception.
See what all follows.

W cannot allow it, that any should make a separation from his church and trouble the peace of the church, and violate brotherly love, much less that one church should condemn another for every difference in doctrine or in ceremonies, where the foundation is still held.
― Zanchi

It chiefly belongs unto [the magistrate], that besides the regard of the public and political good and profit...he should also take the peculiar care of Christian religion, since the Lord hath made him the keeper of both the tables.
— Jerome Zanchi

But also:
“[We] reprove those magistrates which labor to bring in Moses' political precepts among their people.”

Zanchi:
“Christ in His gospel did not take away the political laws of the nations, which were not contrary to the law of nature, therefore, we think it lawful and free for any governors to bring among their subjects such political laws as were delivered to the people of Israel.”

[The Prophet] assures God’s believing people that even in this pilgrimage or earthly place of sojourn they shall enjoy a happy life, in so far as the state of the world will permit.
— John Calvin

In all areas of life we start by believing. Our natural inclination is to believe. It is only acquired knowledge and experience that teach us skepticism. Faith is the foundation of society and the basis of science.
― Herman Bavinck

Custom is a second nature; and therefore, that which is repugnant to custom is held to be decidedly repugnant to nature and, consequently, almost morally impossible.
― Francisco Suárez

Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, but not into the hands of men;
for as His majesty is, so also is His mercy.
— Sirach 2:17

We must not imagine that our prayer is heard only when God gives the thing sought, but also when, in place of it, he gives what, in his infinite wisdom, he knows to be more convenient for us.
— Herman Witsius

The essence of a fallen world is that the best cannot be attained by free enjoyment, or by what is called “self-realization” (usually a nice name for self-indulgence, wholly inimical to the realization of other selves); but by denial, by suffering.
— J. R. R. Tolkien

You will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
— C. S. Lewis

When it comes to the deeds of God, our duty is merely to search out what He has done and to admire it with meekness, rather than to argue about what our reason dictates God should have done.
— Richard Hooker

For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.
― G. K. Chesterton