Tony Byrne @_TheoMed

Evangelical-Baptist ⸎ 20-Year Research Blogger of Mostly Reformed & Puritan Works on God’s Love, Will, Grace, and the Free Offer ⸎ Editor ⸎ Avid Book Collector theologicalmeditations.blogspot.com Joined October 2009

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“God hath a first grace, that points a man’s heart towards himself; and he hath a second grace, that brings a man home to himself. In the new creature, God takes care to prevent a miscarrying womb.”—Obadiah Grew (1607–1689), archive.org/details/medita…

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2 Thess 2:11 And for this reason [because they do not love truth] God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, Today’s prevalence of so-called conspiracy theories is associated with the “strong delusions” described above. It is an aspect of reprobation.

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I finished editing @DrDavidLAllen’s revised and very large commentary on Hebrews, which has thousands of footnotes. Almost a footnote for every sentence. 😣 It is a remarkable piece of work, but glad to be finished with the editing process.

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In Heb 11:23, the author leans on the LXX of Exod 2:2 instead of the Masoretic Text, and says 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 parents hid (ἐσκέπασαν) Moses. The MT has “she [ה֔וּא] hid him.” Incidentally, this is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 a contradiction. If the MT said “she 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 hid him,” then it would be.

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2 weeks ago

There are NT imprecations. Example: 1 Corinthians 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!

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Slowly and and gradually, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 is being scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive. archive.org/search?query=%…

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"Reformed Thought on Freedom vs. Compatibilism" brill.com/view/journals/…

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Reformation Heritage Books @RHB_Books

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📢 PREORDER NOW: The Works of John Cotton | Compiled & Edited for the First Time! John Cotton (1585–1652) shaped the doctrine, worship, and discipline of a fledgling society striving to live fully under God’s Word. With clarity, conviction, and pastoral warmth, he addressed both…

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“Christ drew things from Scripture by CONSEQUENCE in his argument with the Pharisees from that text, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living’ [Matt. 23:32].”—Jonathan Edwards

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2 weeks ago

One of Leonard Verduin’s most insightful pieces (“Christian Truth is an Ellipse,” 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 9.9 [October 1959]: 6–8) is now available to read in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 here: archive.org/details/reform…

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2 weeks ago

I added this information by John Gerstner about an unpublished sermon by Jonathan Edwards to my extensive list of “Various Theologians on the Association of Common Grace Blessings to the Death of Christ”: theologicalmeditations.blogspot.com/2023/03/common…

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2 weeks ago

The context of “love your enemies” is good-willing (benevolence) and good-giving (beneficence). While rebuke and political defeat (showing a hatred of abomination) are compatible with that, the point *and priority* of enemy-love is personal reconciliation with God and His people.

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What is needed in us is both the holy love and holy hate simultaneously displayed in the cross of Christ. The priority and motivation of it was the deep compassion and love of God for lost sinners, but it is conjoined with a desire in God to show how much He abhors the sin in us.

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I don’t know why @Jon_Balserak described Andrew Fuller’s view this way. Fuller accepted free offers and God’s general love, and made no such false dichotomy between offers and commands. He should not be classified with Arthur Pink’s views. archive.org/details/balser…