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The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the days of the early church, Christians have wrestled with the relationship between law and gospel. If, as the apostle Paul says, salvation is by grace and the law cannot save, what relevance does the law have for Christians today? By revisiting the Marrow Controversy—a famous but largely forgotten eighteenth-century debate related to the proper relationship between God’s grace and our...

This deed of gift and grant, or authentic gospel offer … is expressed in so many words, John 3:16.… Where the gospel comes, this grant is published, and the ministerial offer made; and there is no exception of any of all mankind in the grant.… This is the good old way of discovering to sinners their warrant to believe in Christ; and it doth indeed bear the sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ for all,5 and that Christ crucified is the ordinance of God for salvation unto all mankind, in the use-making
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