[drstevej]

At the noble suggestion of my Minister of Diplomacy, Orthodox Presbyterian, this thread serves as a place for Calvinists to register for inclusion in the of the Great Reformed Ping List. The official GRPL will be maintained by Orthodox Presbyterian with the assistance of our distinguished archivist, CC Woody.

The thread also welcomes members of the GRPL to post favorite grace oriented historical quotes from those who have swarmed before us.

Application for inclusion in the GRPL should be accompanied by a suitable historical quote.

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"These, these are the precious truths, which a scoffing world would fain rally or ridicule us out of. To produce this glorious change, this new creation, the glorious Jesus left his Father's bosom. For this he led a persecuted life; for this he died an ignominious and accursed death; for this he rose again; and for this he now sitteth at the right hand of his Father. All the precepts of his gospel, all his ordinances, all his providences, whether of an afflictive or prosperous nature, all divine revelation from the beginning to the end, all center in these two points, to show us how we are fallen, and to begin, early on, and complete a glorious and blessed change in our souls. This is an end worthy of the coming of so divine a personage. To deliver a multitude of souls of every nation, language and tongue, from so many moral evils, and to reinstate them in an incomparably more excellent condition than that from whence they are fallen, is an end worthy the shedding of such precious blood. What system of religion is there now, or was there ever exhibited to the world, any way to be compared to this?"

- George Whitefield, "The Potter and the Clay"

[drstevej]

Great Reformed Ping List Announcement.

Spread the word.

[Wrigley]

Count this as my application to the Great Reformed Bump List.


Lord's Day 1 (Q & A 1 2)
Lord's Day 1
Q & A 1

Q. What is your only comfort
in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own,^1
but belong—
body and soul,
in life and in death—^2
to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.^3

He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood,^4
and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil.^5
He also watches over me in such a way^6
that not a hair can fall from my head
without the will of my Father in heaven:^7
in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.^8

Because I belong to him,
Christ, by his Holy Spirit,
assures me of eternal life^9
and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready
from now on to live for him.^10

^1 1 Cor. 6:19-20
^2 Rom. 14:7-9
^3 1 Cor. 3:23; Titus 2:14
^4 1 Pet. 1:18-19; 1 John 1:7-9; 2:2
^5 John 8:34-36; Heb. 2:14-15; 1 John 3:1-11
^6 John 6:39-40; 10:27-30; 2 Thess. 3:3; 1 Pet. 1:5
^7 Matt. 10:29-31; Luke 21:16-18
^8 Rom. 8:28
^9 Rom. 8:15-16; 2 Cor. 1:21-22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14
^10 Rom. 8:1-17

Q & A 2

Q. What must you know
to live and die in the joy of this comfort?

A. Three things:
first, how great my sin and misery are;^1
second, how I am set free from all my sins and misery;^2
third, how I am to thank God for such deliverance.^3

^1 Rom. 3:9-10; 1 John 1:10
^2 John 17:3; Acts 4:12; 10:43
^3 Matt. 5:16; Rom. 6:13; Eph. 5:8-10; 2 Tim. 2:15; 1 Pet. 2:9-10

[Gamecock]

Sign me up!

"If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly."

Luther

[jboot]

Count me in!

John 6:36-38
But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

-Jesus, the First Cause and the first Calvinist

[jude24]

I'm in:

"From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty in choosing whom He would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased. But I remember the time very well, when I seemed to be convinced, and fully satisfied, as to the sovereignty of God. I have often since, had not only a conviction, but a delightful conviction. The doctrine has very often appeared exceeding pleasant, bright, and sweet. Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. But my first conviction was not so."
-- Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative

[CCWoody]

The official GRPL will be maintained by Orthodox Presbyterian with the assistance of our distinguished archivist, CC Woody. ~ drstevej

Well, I suppose that "archivist" does have a better connotation than "thief."

BTW, RnMomof7, has a ping list already that we should use to notify people. I have it at home so if she doesn't use is by then, I'll pull it out.

Woody.

[AZhardliner]

"May the Lord grant that we may engage in contemplating the mysteries of His heavenly wisdom with increasing devotion, to His glory and our edification."
John Calvin
Prayer before his lectures

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[xJones]

The doctrines of grace are mightily assailed by those who would proclaim with their father, “I will be like the Most High.”

Anyone that calls himself Pope Piel must be an authority on the subject.:) Thou almost persuadeth me to be a Mormon....

[NeoCaveman]

From every corner, in every thread exalt the right of God to do whatsoever He pleaseth.

Nah, sounds to much like a "work" to me.....

[RnMomof7]

A bump to my list

[A.J.Armitage]

"A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved." --Charles Spurgeon

Add me please.

[drstevej]

Great Reformed Ping List - Update
• Drstevej, Thread Pope
• Orthodox Presbyterian, Minister of Diplomacy
• CC Woody, Archivist
• Wrigley
• Gamecock
• Jean Chauvin
• jboot
• jude24
• Azhardliner
• Alex Murphy
• A.J. Armitage

[4Godsoloved..Hegave]

Add me to the GRPL

"I am not ignorant that, as the Israelites loathed the manna, because that every day they saw and ate but one thing, so there are some now-a-days (who will not be held of the worst sort) that, after once reading some parcels of the scripture, do commit [turn] themselves altogether to profane authors and human lectures, because the variety of matters therein contained does bring with it a daily delectation, where contrariwise, within the simple scriptures of God, the perpetual repetition of a thing is fashious [tiresome] and wearisome. This temptation, I confess, may enter into God's very elect for a time; but it is impossible that they continue therein to the end; for God's election, besides other evident signs, has this ever joined with it, that God's elect are called from ignorance (I speak of those that are come to the years of knowledge), to some taste and feeling of God's mercy, of the which they are never satisfied in this life, but from time to time they hunger to eat the bread that descended from heaven, and they thirst to drink the water that springs to life everlasting, which they cannot do but by the means of faith ­ and faith looks ever to the will of God revealed by his word, so that faith has both her beginning and continuance by the word of God. And so I say that it is impossible that God's chosen children can despise or reject the word of their salvation of any long continuance, neither yet loathe it to the end. "

John Knox 1556 excerpt from A Letter of Wholesome Counsel,
Addressed to His Brethren in Scotland

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Homer Simpson, member of the Springfield Presbyterian Church, on God:

"Oh, He's always happy...No, wait! He's always mad."

http://www.snpp.com/other/articles/dohdeity.html

[Frumanchu]

"Works, works! a man gets to heaven by works! I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand." - George Whitefield, last sermon

"Add me to the list you must. Yeeesssss...mmmm hmmmm hmmm"

[rwfromkansas]

I am in.

"Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure."
GEORGE WHITEFIELD TO JOHN WESLEY

[CARepubGal]

Your Fishiness:

My humble offering thanks to Benjamin Warfield:

"Calvinism is not a specific variety of theistic thought, religious experience, [or] evangelical faith; but just the perfect manifestation of these things. The difference between it and other forms of theism, religion, [and] evangelicalism is difference not of kind but of degree ... it does not take its position then by the side of other types of things; it takes its place over all else that claims to be these things, as embodying all that they ought to be."

Upon the 400'th Anniversary of John Calvin's birth.

[ModelBreaker]

Ping for later reading

[Biblical Calvinist]

Q1: What is the chief end of man?
A1: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever.

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Include me too, Dr.Stevej~!