Theology is but an appendix...Toyohiko Kagawa

"Theology is but an appendix to love, and an unreliable appendix!"

Japanese evangelist Toyohiko Kagawa 

The five points of Calvinism by WJ Seaton

Author: WJ Seaton

Date: 1970

Source: The Five Points of Calvinism

Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust

City: London

1. Free will, or human ability. This taught that man, although affected by the fall, was not totally incapable of choosing spiritual good, and was able to exercise faith in God in order to receive the gospel and thus bring himself into possession of salvation.

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity - Jonathan Edwards

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/trinity/files/trinity.html

JONATHAN EDWARDS

IT IS COMMON when speaking of the Divine happiness to say that God is infinitely happy in the enjoyment of Himself, in perfectly beholding and infinitely loving, and rejoicing in, His own essence and perfection, and accordingly it must be supposed that God perpetually and eternally has a most perfect idea of Himself, as it were an exact image and representation of Himself ever before Him and in actual view, and from hence arises a most pure and perfect act or energy in the Godhead, which is the Divine love, complacence and joy. The knowledge or view which God has of Himself must necessarily be conceived to be something distinct from His mere direct existence. There must be something that answers to our reflection. The reflection as we reflect on our own minds carries something of imperfection in it. However, if God beholds Himself so as thence to have delight and joy in Himself He must become his own object. There must be a duplicity. There is God and the idea of God, if it be proper to call a conception of that that is purely spiritual an idea.