The Westminster Confession of Faith: A Commentary by A. A. Hodge

Author:A. A. Hodge
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Westminster, Confession of Faith
Publisher: Monergism Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

QUESTIONS

1. What is the first proposition taught in this chapter?

2. What is the difference between falling totally and finally?

3. Why must Arminians and Calvinists take opposite sides on this question?

4. What is the Arminians' doctrine as to election?

5. What is their doctrine as to the design of Christ's death?

6. What is their doctrine as to the relation of the free will of

the sinner to the gracious influences of the Holy Ghost in regeneration?

7. Show that their position on all these points renders the conclusion inevitable that the true believer may totally and therefore may finally fall from grace.

8. State the doctrine of the Romish Church on this point.

9. Do the same of the Protestant Arminians.

10. State the Calvinistic doctrine of this subject.

11. Show that this doctrine does not involve any denial of the freedom of the human will.

12. Show that this doctrine is not open to the charge of fostering among those who think themselves believers a spirit of carnal security.

13. Show that the Scriptures explicitly teach the fact that true believers will not be allowed totally and finally to fall from grace.

14. Show that the ground of this certainly coos not consist at all in the free will of the believer.

15. Show that it necessarily follows from what the Scriptures teach as to the decree of election.

16. The same from what they teach as to the eternal covenant of grace.

17. The same from what they teach as to the design of Christ's death, and the relation which his merits and intercession sustain to individuals.

18. The same from what they teach as to the indwelling of the Holy Ghost.

19. What is the third proposition taught in this chapter?

20. What are the principal sources and occasions of falling to which a true believer is liable?

21. What are the principal effects to which they give rise?

[1] Council of Trent, Sess. vi., Canon 23.

[2] Confession of the Remonstrants, xi. 7.

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