They are brought to eternal glory - that they may have everlasting life. They are exempted from eternal perdition- that they may not perish.Ģ. Sixthly, That those who believe receive a double benefit:ġ. who credits what God has spoken concerning Christ, his sacrifice, the end for which it was offered, and the way in which it is to be applied in order to become effectual. Thirdly, That the sacrifice of Jesus was the only mean by which the redemption of man could be effected, and that it is absolutely sufficient to accomplish this gracious design: for it would have been inconsistent with the wisdom of God, to have appointed a sacrifice greater in itself, or less in its merit, than what the urgent necessities of the case required.įourthly, That sin must be an indescribable evil, when it required no less a sacrifice, to make atonement for it, than God manifested in the flesh.įifthly, That no man is saved through this sacrifice, but he that believes, i.e. Secondly, That God, through the impulse of his eternal love, provided for its rescue and salvation, by giving his Son to die for it. The same evangelist uses a similar mode of expression, 1 John 3:1: Behold, WHAT MANNER of love, ποταπην αγαπην, the Father hath bestowed upon us.įrom the subject before him, let the reader attend to the following particulars.įirst, The world was in a ruinous, condemned state, about to perish everlastingly and was utterly without power to rescue itself from destruction. He has put an eternity of meaning in the particle ουτω, so, and left a subject for everlasting contemplation, wonder, and praise, to angels and to men. For God so loved the world - Such a love as that which induced God to give his only begotten son to die for the world could not be described: Jesus Christ does not attempt it. Dictionaries: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Faith Grace Love Nehushtan Nicodemus Son of God World Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assurance Faith Justification Life Love Mission Predestination Propitiation Son of god World Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Assurance Condemnation Endurance Faith Great Commission, the Grief, Grieving Hell Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of King, Christ as Life Love Spirituality Testimony Time Word World Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Compassion of God Episcopacy Generation, Eternal Love of God Redemption Son of God Universalists Easton Bible Dictionary - Atonement Call Faith Life Moses Nicodemus Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ Love Mediator Reconciliation Sacrifice Holman Bible Dictionary - Adoption Anthropology Atonement Children (Sons) of God Conversion Divine Freedom Election Eternal Life Family Gift, Giving God Holy Spirit Immutability of God Life Love New Birth Only Begotten Ordinances Salvation Security of the Believer World, the Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death Election Ethics God Gospels Guilt Inner Man John, Gospel of John, Theology of Logos Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved Mss Nicodemus Pity Redeemer, Redemption Scribes Trinity World Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adoption Advent (2) Anger Announcements of Death Apocrypha Atonement (2) Attributes of Christ Begetting Brotherhood (2) Character Communion (2) Complacency Cosmopolitanism Day of Atonement Day of Judgment Death (2) Death of Christ Discourse Endurance Eternal Life (2) Eternal Punishment Father, Fatherhood Gentiles (2) Gift Giving God Gospel (2) Grace Holy Spirit Hope Humanity of Christ Ideas (Leading) Immortality (2) Justice (2) Kindness (2) Logos Lost Love Love (2) Man Mediation Mediator Mediator Metaphors Ministry Mission Name (2) Names and Titles of Christ Obedience (2) Only Begotten Only- Begotten Personality Philanthropy Pity Power Pre-Eminence Pre-Existence of Christ Property (2) Redemption (2) Religious Experience Repentance (2) Righteous, Righteousness Salvation Sanctify, Sanctification Sin (2) Son of God Son, Sonship Teaching of Jesus Trinity (2) Trust Vicarious Sacrifice World Zeal Morrish Bible Dictionary - Begotten Believer Eternal Son, the 8 To Love, Have Affection for 1910 New Catholic Dictionary - only begotten son The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Intercession Regeneration People's Dictionary of the Bible - Atonement Justification Names titles and offices of christ Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Perish Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Calling

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