Tag Archives: concupiscence

Outline, John Owen *Mortification of Sin*

Posted on June 17, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/SpiritualFormation/Texts/Owen_MortificationOfSin.pdf Foundation of the Discourse The relationship between justification and mortification is cause and effect (Owen 6). Our duty: The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all … Continue reading →

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Concupiscence in Shedd

Posted on June 15, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

With the PCA har forces of George Soros, and from a number of conversations I’ve had with the Revoice crowd, the question that keeps coming up: are sinful desires sinful?  The more you reflect on this, the harder a simple … Continue reading →

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Augustine: Baptism and Forgiveness

Posted on March 9, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

These are some notes from Augustine’s treatise Baptism and the Forgiveness of Sins.  Once you get passed the grim assertions that unbaptized babies aren’t saved (which guaranteed that the Catholic church would come up with theories of Limbo), there are some … Continue reading →

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