By SharperIron
Sep
11
2013
“Walter Marshall (1628-1680) gives sound counsel in The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification.
I have summarized the main points below.
Direction One
That we may acceptably perform the duties of holiness and righteousness required in the law, our first work is, to learn the powerful and effectual means whereby we may attain to so great an end.” Relentlessly Biblical
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Nice antidote...
...to the contemporary aversion to concepts like duty, responsibility, and hard work in sanctification.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
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not that i want to get into all this again, but if you read all the points, almost each one is about faith/belief and the gospel. ..
point 13 is maybe the only one that directly addresses works. and the last point states yet again:
well, here are points 2-13, if it helps to have them here:
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Indispensible but not solitary
Beginning frames it nicely, relating duty and effort to the deeper means...
Faith in the gospel is indeed indispensable. I don't think anyone is disputing that. It simply doesn't stand alone in sanctification and neither faith nor obedience may be sacrificed to the other.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
faith
i do feel like we go in circles with this.
but let me just say, that once you realize how faith in the gospel is so powerful in sanctifying, then one understands why this is what needs to be emphasized. the whole rest of his piece shows this.
sure, no one is denying obedience, duty, responsibility. they are emphasizing the correct means to approach obedience, duty, responsibility. if these things are not understood properly, we just go on in self righteousness and thinking we are earning our daily standing before God.
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