The Quest for Full Assurance
The Legacy of Calvin and His Successors
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Weight | 1.16 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.5 × 5.4 × 1.25 in |
ISBN | 9780851517452 |
Binding | Paperback |
Topic | Assurance, General Theology, Salvation |
Original Pub Date | 1999 |
Banner Pub Date | Apr 1, 1999 |
Page Count | 411 |
Format | Book |
ENDORSEMENT
‘A long-needed and outstanding work on the subject of assurance…of permanent importance for preachers and students’. — IAIN H. MURRAY
Book Description
Against the background of the sixteenth century Reformers (with special attention to Calvin), Beeke examines the theological development of personal assurance of faith in English Puritanism and its parallel movement in the Netherlands, the Dutch Second Reformation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS | ix | |
ABBREVIATIONS | xiii | |
PREFACE – Sinclair Ferguson | xv | |
INTRODUCTION | 1 | |
Part One | ||
ASSURANCE PRIOR TO THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY | ||
THE EARLY AND MEDIEVAL CHURCH | 9 | |
THE REFORMATION FROM LUTHER TO BULLINGER | 16 | |
Martin Luther (1483-1546) | 19 | |
Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) | 24 | |
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) | 27 | |
Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575) | 31 | |
REFORMED DEVELOPMENT IN CALVIN AND BEZA | 36 | |
John Calvin (1509-1564) | 37 | |
Nature and Definition of Faith | 37 | |
Assurance of the Essence of Faith | 39 | |
Qualifying Statements | 41 | |
Making Sense of Apparent Contradictions | 44 | |
Faith and Experience | 44 | |
Flesh versus Spirit | 46 | |
Germ of Faith versus Consciousness of Faith | 51 | |
Trinitarian Framework | 55 | |
The Practical Syllogism (syllogismus practicus) | 65 | |
Theodore Beza (1519-1605) | 72 | |
Comparison with Calvin | 73 | |
The Grounds of Assurance | 75 | |
THE FATHERS OF ENGLISH PURITANISM AND THE DUTCH SECOND REFORMATION | 82 | |
William Perkins (1558-1602) | 83 | |
Structuring Principles | 83 | |
The Grounds of Assurance | 87 | |
Conversion’s Steps | 88 | |
Step #1: Humiliation | 88 | |
Step #2: Faith in Christ | 89 | |
Steps #3-4: Repentance and New Obedience | 96 | |
William Teellinck (1579-1629) | 98 | |
Assurance by Faith Working Through Love | 104 | |
Assurance by the Promises of God | 105 | |
Assurance by the Immediate Witness of the Holy Spirit | 107 | |
Part Two | ||
ASSURANCE FROM THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY TO ALEXANDER COMRIE | ||
ENGLISH PURITANISM AND THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION, CHAPTER 18 | 111 | |
Puritan Thought on Assurance by the 1640s | 113 | |
18.1: Threefold Possibility | 119 | |
False Assurance | 120 | |
True Assurance | 121 | |
Lacking the Consciousness of Assurance | 122 | |
18.2: The Foundations of Personal Assurance | 123 | |
Divine Promises in Christ | 124 | |
Inward Evidences of Saving Grace | 130 | |
The Seat of Assurance: Christ’s Internal Presence | 130 | |
The Method of Assurance: The Practical and Mystical Syllogisms | 131 | |
The Witnessing Testimony of the Spirit | 142 | |
18.3: The Cultivation of Assurance | 147 | |
The Organic Relation of Faith to Assurance | 147 | |
The Time Element in Faith’s Maturation | 150 | |
The Means of Attaining Assurance | 152 | |
The Duty of Seeking Assurance | 154 | |
The Fruit of Assurance | 155 | |
18.4: Assurance Lost and Renewed | 156 | |
The Causes of an “Unreachable” Assurance | 156 | |
Causes in the Believer: Sin and Backsliding | 156 | |
Causes in God: Withdrawing and “Tempting” | 159 | |
The Revival of Assurance | 162 | |
Conclusion | 164 | |
JOHN OWEN | 165 | |
Two Short Catechisms (1645) | 166 | |
The Doctrine of the Saints’ Perseverance (1654) | 167 | |
Polemical Response to John Goodwin | 167 | |
Setting the Stage for Elaboration on Assurance | 171 | |
Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (1657) | 173 | |
Communion with the Father: Love | 177 | |
Communion with the Son: Grace | 178 | |
Conjugal Relationship | 178 | |
Adoption | 180 | |
Communion with the Spirit: Comfort | 181 | |
Witnessing in the Court of Conscience | 182 | |
The Believer’s “Earnest” | 185 | |
The Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658) | 187 | |
An Exposition upon Psalm CXXX (1668) | 189 | |
Personal Crises | 189 | |
Enlargement Upon the Westminster Confession | 191 | |
The Attainability of Assurance | 191 | |
Assurance Normative but not Common | 192 | |
How Assurance is Obtained | 196 | |
Retaining, Renewing, and Improving Assurance | 198 | |
Pneumatologia: A Discourse on the Holy Spirit (1674ff.) | 200 | |
The Sealing of the Spirit | 201 | |
The Unction of the Spirit | 208 | |
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith (1677) | 209 | |
An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews (1668-1684) | 211 | |
Conclusion: Owen’s Influence and Pneumatological Emphasis | 212 | |
ALEXANDER COMRIE | 214 | |
Historical and Biographical Context | 214 | |
Saving Faith | 217 | |
The Habit and Act of Faith | 218 | |
Unity and Oneness (eenheid) of Faith | 226 | |
Three Faculties of Faith | 227 | |
Spiritual Knowledge | 228 | |
Spiritual Assent | 229 | |
Spiritual Trust | 230 | |
Assurance of Faith | 231 | |
The Direct and Reflex Acts of Faith | 231 | |
Assurance of the Uprightness of Faith and of Adoption | 233 | |
Assurance of Faith and Assurance of Sense | 234 | |
Conditional and Unconditional Promises | 236 | |
Faith and Justification | 237 | |
Part Three | ||
COMPARISON OF ENGLISH PURITANISM AND THE DUTCH SECOND REFORMATION ON ASSURANCE | ||
THOMAS GOODWIN: THE MERGING OF ENGLISH-DUTCH THINKING OF ASSURANCE | 245 | |
Goodwin and Owen | 247 | |
Spiritual Experience and Dutch Influence | 247 | |
Faith’s Relation to Assurance | 255 | |
Assurance and Knowledge of the Divine Persons | 257 | |
Discursive and Intuitive Assurance | 259 | |
Goodwin and Comrie | 265 | |
CONCLUSION | 269 | |
APPENDIX: THE DUTCH SECOND REFORMATION (DE NADERE REFORMATIE) | 286 | |
The Term Nadere Reformatie | 287 | |
The Essence of the Dutch Second Reformation | 293 | |
Assessment in Secondary Sources | 303 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 311 | |
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS | 381 | |
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES | 393 |
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