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J. Matthew Pinson, “Daniel Whitby on the Warning Passages in Hebrews”

SEA — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:54:41 +0000

Recently I was reading an old book from Daniel Whitby entitled A Discourse Concerning the True Import of the Words Election and Reprobation (1710). Whitby was a well-known Anglican Arminian in the late seventeenth and…

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Friday Files: Whitby on Acts 13:48

Godismyjudge — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:30:03 +0000

Dr. Whitby discusses Acts 13:48 in his Discorses on the 5 Points, page 70. First, he gives three problems with the Calvinist translation and then provides multiple examples of how tasso ‘ordained’ is often translated…

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Daniel Whitby, “Refuting Arguments for Irresistible Grace (Part 1): Grace

Godismyjudge — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:11:41 +0000

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Daniel Whitby, “Arguments against Irresistible Grace (Part 2)”

Godismyjudge — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:02:11 +0000

By Daniel Whitby – part of Discourses on the 5 Points
Editor Note: Archaic spellings and words have been updated, sentences broken down into shorter sentences, and links to Scripture references inserted. - Godismyjudge

To proceed now to the arguments which evidently seem to confute this doctrine:

II. ARGUMENT ONE – Sufficient Grace

And (1.) this is evident from those expressions of the holy scripture, which intimate that God had done what was sufficient, and all that reasonably could be expected from Him in order to the reformation of those persons who were not reformed; 'for what could have been done more, (HEBREW, what was there more to do?) for my vineyard, which I have not done in it? Wherefore then when I looked (or, expected,) that it should have brought forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? (Isaiah 5:4)

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Daniel Whitby, “Refuting Arguments for Irresistible Grace (Part 3)”

Godismyjudge — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:56:36 +0000

By Daniel Whitby – part of Discourses on the 5 Points
Editor Note: Archaic spellings and words have been updated, sentences broken down into shorter sentences and links to scripture references inserted. - Godismyjudge
Answering the arguments produced to prove, First, that man is purely passive in the work of conversion, and that it is done by an irresistible or unfrustrable act of God.

Preliminary Remarks

These arguments, for method-sake, may be reduced to four heads,

First. Arguments taken from the nature of the work itself; as v. g. it being represented by such acts:

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Daniel Whitby, Discourses on the 5 Points

Godismyjudge — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:11:51 +0000

Warning: Whitby slighted the doctrine of original sin. But besides that, he had the loudest voice against Calvinism in his day. His classic work from 1735, which provides detailed scriptural explanations of large numbers of…

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