circumscribe them all in fixed stadia. When theology defines the ordo salutis, it is to “display the treasures of salvation and blessing which God in Christ has earned for His people and which He in the Holy Spirit apportions to them.” It is, further, “to suggest the benefits that the one great work of redemption brings.”3 Our reflection on the ordo salutis concerns, finally, what Calvin expressed simply as “the manner in which the grace of Christ is obtained, the fruits that come to us therefrom,
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