Examine Your Faith - John MacArthur
What do you look for in your life to discern whether your faith is real? Here is a biblical test that will help you "examine your faith". - More

The Nature and Necessity of a Public Profession of Religion - Charles Hodge
Although religion is thus retiring in its character, and although it consists, in a great measure, in the secret intercourse of the soul with God, it nevertheless has its social and public relations, which render it impossible that a true Christian should desire to keep the fact of his being a Christian a secret from the world. - More

Preparations Before Conversion: Part III - Samuel Rutherford
Assertion. That the promises of the gospel are holden forth to sinners as sinners, hath a twofold sense. - More

Preparations Before Conversion: Part II - Samuel Rutherford
Objection by Saltmarsh. But others bid the troubled soul believe, but he must first seek in himself qualifications or conditions. But this is to will them to walk in the light of their own sparks. - More

Preparations Before Conversion: Part I - Samuel Rutherford
Excerpts from Samuel Rutherford, Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself, London 1647, pp. 239-61. - More

The Plan of Salvation - Part V (Calvinism) - Benjamin B. Warfield
AS OVER AGAINST all attempts to conceive the operations of God looking to salvation universalistically, that is as directed to mankind in the mass, Calvinism insists that the saving operations of God are directed in every case immediately to the individuals who are saved. - More

The Plan of Salvation - Part IV (Universalism) - Benjamin B. Warfield
In odd contradiction to the individualistic sentiment which informs all truly evangelical piety, there exists in Protestantism a widespread tendency to construe the activities of God looking to salvation not individualistically but universally, to assert, in one word, that all that God does looking toward the salvation of sinful man, he does not to or for individual men but to or for all men alike, making no distinctions. - More

The Plan of Salvation - Part III (Sacerdotalism) - Benjamin B. Warfield
The sacerdotal principle finds very complete expression in the thoroughly developed and logically compacted system of the Church of Rome. According to this system God the Lord does nothing looking to the salvation of men directly and immediately: all that he does for the salvation of men he does through the mediation of the Church. - More

The Plan of Salvation - Part II (Autosoterism) - Benjamin B. Warfield
THERE ARE fundamentally only two doctrines of salvation: that salvation is from God, and that salvation is from ourselves. The former is the doctrine of common Christianity; the latter is the doctrine of universal heathenism." - More

The Plan of Salvation - Part I (Differing Conceptions) - Benjamin B. Warfield
THE SUBJECT to which our attention is to be directed in this series of lectures is ordinarily spoken of as "The Plan of Salvation." Its more technical designation is, "The Order of Decrees." And this technical designation has the advantage over the more popular one, of more accurately defining the scope of the subject matter. - More

Marks of a True Conversion - George Whitefield
I suppose I may take it for granted, that all of you, among whom I am now about to preach the kingdom of God, are fully convinced, that it is appointed for all men once to die, and that ye all really believe that after death comes the judgment, and that the consequences of that judgment will be, that ye must be doomed to dwell in the blackness of darkness, or ascend to dwell with the blessed God, for ever and ever. - More

The Doctrine of Repenance - E. C. Wines
The word repentance, in the original language of the New Testament, signifies an after-thought. It denotes a change wrought in the mind and intention by a retrospect of our past life. - More

The Work of Conversion - John Owen
The corrupt principle of sin works early in our natures, and for the most part prevents grace from working in us (Psa. 58:3). As we grow mentally and physically, our natures increasingly become the willing instruments of unrighteousness (Rom. 6:13). - More

Repentance: According to 2 Corinthians 7:11 - John Calvin
It is for a very good reason that the apostle enumerates seven causes, effects, or parts in his description of repentance. They are earnestness or carefulness, excuse, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and avenging. - More

The Sovereignty of God the Holy Spirit in Salvation - Arthur W. Pink
The mission of the Holy Spirit in the world today is to apply the benefits of Christ’s redemptive sacrifice. The question which is now to engage us is not the extent of the Holy Spirit’s power—on that point there can be no doubt, it is infinite—but what we shall seek to show is that His power and operations are directed by Divine wisdom and sovereignty. - More

The Covenant of Grace - Different Dispensations - Charles Hodge
Although the covenant of grace has always been the same, the dispensations of that covenant have changed. - More

The Covenant of Grace - The Identity of the Covenant of Grace under all Dispensations - Charles Hodge
By this is meant that the plan of salvation has, under all dispensations, the Patriarchal, the Mosaic, and the Christian, been the same. - More

The Covenant of Grace - The Covenant - Charles Hodge
In virtue of what the Son of God covenanted to perform, and what in the fulness of time He actually accomplished, agreeably to the stipulations of the compact with the Father, two things follow. - More

The Covenant of Grace - Parties to the Covenant - Charles Hodge
At first view there appears to be some confusion in the statements of the Scriptures as to the parties to this covenant. Sometimes Christ is presented as one of the parties; at others He is represented not as a party, but as the mediator and surety of the covenant; while the parties are represented to be God and his people. - More

The Covenant of Grace - Different Views of the Nature of this Covenant - Charles Hodge
It is assumed by many that the parties to the covenant of grace are God and fallen man. Man by his apostasy having forfeited the favour of God, lost the divine image, and involved himself in sin and misery, must have perished in this state, had not God provided a plan of salvation. - More

The Covenant of Grace - The Plan of Salvation - Charles Hodge
The plan of salvation is presented under the form of a covenant. This is evident, First, from the constant use of the words berit and diatheke in reference to it. - More

Warrants to Believe: Part II - David Dickson and James Durham
The third Warrant and special Motive to believe in Christ, is the strait and awful command of God, charging all the hearers of the gospel to approach to Christ in the order set down by him, and to believe in him; holden forth, I John 3:23. "This his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment." - More

Warrants to Believe: Part I - David Dickson and James Durham
For building our confidence upon this solid ground, these four Warrants and special Motives to believe in Christ may serve. - More

The Atonement - Loraine Boettner
The two great objectives to be accomplished by Jesus Christ in His mission to this world were, first, the removal of the curse under which mankind labored as a result of the disobedience and fall, and second, the restoration of men to the image and fellowship of God. - More

Salvation According to Jesus - William Webster
When teaching on salvation Jesus has a great deal to say about hell, the kingdom of God, his atonement, union with himself, conversion, faith, repentance, sanctification and discipleship. Surprisingly, he has little to say about justification. - More

The Covenant of Grace - John Murray
STUDENTS of historical theology, even those who entertain a radically different view of the history of divine revelation from that which governs the thought of classic Reformed theology, have recognized that the covenant theology marked an epoch in the appreciation and understanding of the progressiveness of divine revelation. - More

God's Sovereignty In Salvation - Steven Houck
Because God is the sovereign God, the Master and Ruler of heaven and earth, it must also be true that the will of God is sovereign. - More

Treatise on Grace - Part III: Shewing How a Principle of Grace is from the Spirit of God - Jonathan Edwards
Regeneration is by the Spirit: John iii. 5, 6—" Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." - More

Treatise on Grace - Part II: Shewing Wherein All Saving Grace Does Summarily Consist - Jonathan Edwards
THE next thing that arises for consideration is, What is the nature of this principle in the soul that is so entirely diverse from all that is naturally in the soul? - More

Treatise on Grace - Part I: Shewing That Common and Saving Grace Differ, Not Only in Degree, But in Nature and Kind - Jonathan Edwards
SUCH phrases as common grace, and special or saving grace, may be understood as signifying either diverse kinds of influence of God's Spirit on the hearts of men, or diverse fruits and effects of that influence. - More

Are You Born Again? - J. C. Ryle
This is one of life's most important questions. Jesus Christ said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). - More

Experimental Salvation - Arthur W. Pink
Salvation may be viewed from many angles and contemplated under various aspects, but from whatever side we look at it we must ever remember that "Salvation is of the Lord." - More

The Method of Grace - Jeremiah 6:14 - George Whitefield
As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere, and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world, is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm, and unskilled guides. And yet, in all ages, we find that there have been many wolves in sheep's clothing, many that daubed with untempered mortar, that prophesied smoother things than God did allow. As it was formerly, so it is now; there are many that corrupt the Word of God and deal deceitfully with it. - More