Titre :	The marks of God's children
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Jean Taffin (1529-1602), Auteur ; Peter Y. De Jong, Traducteur ; James A. De Jong, Éditeur scientifique
Editeur :	Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic
Année de publication :	c2003
Collection :	Classics of Reformed Spirituality
Importance :	155 p.
Présentation :	Illustrations, map.
Format :	22 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-8010-2619-5
Note générale :	Other title: Des marques des enfans de Dieu et des consolations en leurs afflictions. "Based on the Dutch text as it last stood before Taffin's death"--Introduction.
Langues :	Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Néerlandais (dut)
Catégories :	Consolation Perseverance (Theology) Suffering--Religious aspects--Reformed Church
Index. décimale :	BT 768
Note de contenu :	Blessedness -- Concerning the great and incomprehensible blessedness of eternal life promised to God's children -- Assurance -- How we know that we are children of God -- Appropriating the marks -- How every church member should appropriate these distinguishing marks to be assured of his adoption and salvation -- 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. 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 -- Sufferings and the marks -- Sufferings should not cause us to doubt our adoption but serve rather to strengthen us -- Suffering prophesied -- The sufferings we experience have been prophesied and therefore should strengthen us in the assurance of our adoption as God's children. Oppressed but loved -- The children of God have always been oppressed, yet they are continually loved by Him -- 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 -- Suffering and fruit -- Concerning suffering in the name of Christ and its fruit -- The fruit of persecution -- Other fruit of the persecutions we suffer for the name of Jesus Christ -- Perseverance in persecution -- An admonition to persevere steadfastly in the truth of the gospel in times of persecution -- Holy meditations and prayers -- Prayers drawn from Paul's epistles -- Thoughts drawn from St. Augustine -- Dutch Reformed Translation Society.

The marks of God's children [texte imprimé] / Jean Taffin (1529-1602), Auteur ; Peter Y. De Jong, Traducteur ; James A. De Jong, Éditeur scientifique . - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, c2003 . - 155 p. : Illustrations, map. ; 22 cm. - (Classics of Reformed Spirituality) .
ISBN : 978-0-8010-2619-5
Other title: Des marques des enfans de Dieu et des consolations en leurs afflictions.
"Based on the Dutch text as it last stood before Taffin's death"--Introduction.
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Néerlandais (dut)

Catégories :	Consolation Perseverance (Theology) Suffering--Religious aspects--Reformed Church
Index. décimale :	BT 768
Note de contenu :	Blessedness -- Concerning the great and incomprehensible blessedness of eternal life promised to God's children -- Assurance -- How we know that we are children of God -- Appropriating the marks -- How every church member should appropriate these distinguishing marks to be assured of his adoption and salvation -- 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. 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 -- Sufferings and the marks -- Sufferings should not cause us to doubt our adoption but serve rather to strengthen us -- Suffering prophesied -- The sufferings we experience have been prophesied and therefore should strengthen us in the assurance of our adoption as God's children. Oppressed but loved -- The children of God have always been oppressed, yet they are continually loved by Him -- 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 -- Suffering and fruit -- Concerning suffering in the name of Christ and its fruit -- The fruit of persecution -- Other fruit of the persecutions we suffer for the name of Jesus Christ -- Perseverance in persecution -- An admonition to persevere steadfastly in the truth of the gospel in times of persecution -- Holy meditations and prayers -- Prayers drawn from Paul's epistles -- Thoughts drawn from St. Augustine -- Dutch Reformed Translation Society.