The marks of God's children /
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| Author / Creator: | Taffin, Jean, 1529-1602. |
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| Uniform title: | Des marques des enfans de Dieu et des consolations en leurs afflictions. English |
| Imprint: | Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2003. |
| Description: | 155 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Classics of Reformed spirituality |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4884761 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- To the Faithful in the Low Country
- 1. Blessedness: Concerning the Great and Incomprehensible Blessedness of Eternal Life Promised to God's Children
- 2. Assurance: How We Know That We Are Children of God
- 3. Appropriating the Marks: How Every Church Member Should Appropriate These Distinguishing Marks to Be Assured of His Adoption and Salvation
- 4. Small, Weak Marks: Although the Distinguishing Marks of Our Adoption Are Small and Weak, We May and Should Nevertheless Be Assured That We Are Children of God
- 5. Apostasy and Doubt: The Apostasy and Falling Away of Some Who Once Confessed the True Religion May Not Cause Us to Doubt Either Doctrine or Our Status as God's Children
- 6. Sufferings and the Marks: Sufferings Should Not Cause Us to Doubt Our Adoption but Serve Rather to Strengthen Us
- 7. Suffering Prophesied: The Sufferings We Experience Have Been Prophesied and Therefore Should Strengthen Us in the Assurance of Our Adoption as God's Children
- 8. Oppressed but Loved: The Children of God Have Always Been Oppressed, Yet They Are Continually Loved by Him
- 9. Fruits as Evidences: The Sufferings So Universal among Adam's Children Are, with Regard to Their Precious Fruits, the Evidences for God's Children of Their Adoption and of His Love for Them
- 10. Suffering and Fruit: Concerning Suffering in the Name of Christ and Its Fruit
- 11. The Fruit of Persecution: Other Fruit of the Persecutions We Suffer for the Name of Jesus Christ
- 12. Perseverance in Persecution: An Admonition to Persevere Steadfastly in the Truth of the Gospel in Times of Persecution
- 13. Holy Meditations and Prayers
- Prayers Drawn from Paul's Epistles
- Thoughts Drawn from St. Augustine
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