35
45
Works of Manton, 12:116-17.
46
Ibid., 1:34-36; 12:117-18.
47
Ibid., 1:36, 50-51; cf. Ford, The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption, 200, and Petto, The Voice of the Spirit,
56-62.
48
Works of Boston, 1:619, 621.
49
Works of Manton, 12:123.
50
Brakel, Christian's Reasonable Service, 2:420.
51
Willard, A Compleat Body of Divinity, 487.
52
Ford, The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption, 201-202.
53
Forbes, How a Christian man may discerne the testimonie of Gods spirit, from the testimonie of his owne
spirit, in witnessing his Adoption, 37.
54
Petto, The Voice of the Spirit, 7.
55
Cf. my Quest for Full Assurance: The Legacy of Calvin and His Successors (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth
Trust, 1999), 142-47.
56
Burroughs, The Saints' Happiness, 196; Burgess, Spiritual Refining, 44; Gillespie, A Treatise of
Miscellany Questions (Edinburgh: Gedeon Lithgovv, for George Svvintuun, 1649), 105-109.
57
Cf. Perkins`s exegesis of Romans 8:16 in Works of Perkins, 2:18-19; Burgess`s exegesis of Romans
8:15-16, Ephesians 1:13, and 1 John 5:8 in Spiritual Refining, 49-50.
58
Cf. Works of Perkins, 2:277-80; Works of Owen, 4:265-70.
59
Works of Manton, 1:51-53.
60
Petto, The Voice of the Spirit, 67-97; Rutherford, The Covenant of Life Opened, or A Treatise of the
Covenant of Grace (Edinburgh: Andro Anderson, for Robert Broun, 1655), 65ff.; Twisse, The Doctrine of
the Synod of Dort and Arles, reduced to the practice (Amsterdam: G.Thorp, 1631), 147ff.; Scudder, The
Christian's Daily Walk, in holy Security and Peace (reprint, Harrisburg, Va.: Sprinkle, 1984), 338-42;
Witsius, Economy of the Covenants, 1:465ff.; Cole, Christ the Foundation of our Adoption, 357-62;
Mather, The Sealed Servants of our God, Appearing with Two Witnesses, 16-22.
61
Meyer, Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to The Epistle of the Romans (New York: Funk & Wagnalls,
1889), 316.
62
Witsius, Economy of the Covenants, 1:466-67.
63
Mather, The Sealed Servants of our God, Appearing with Two Witnesses, 16.
64
Works of Manton, 12:127; Witsius, Economy of the Covenants, 1:463; Petto, The Voice of the Spirit, 23-
41.
65
Ford, The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption, 201.
66
Works of Manton, 12:128-29.
67
Ford, The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption, 204-205.
68
Works of Perkins, 3:154.
69
Puritan Sermons, 5:344.
70
Mather, The Sealed Servants of our God, Appearing with Two Witnesses, 9ff.
71
Works of Marshall, 54-55.
72
Packer, Knowing God, 190.
73
John Cotton, An Exposition of First John (reprint Evansville, Ind.: Sovereign Grace Publishers, 1962),
319.
74
Ibid., 318.
75
Ibid., 320-21.
76
Ibid., 327-29.
77
Ibid., 331.
78
Ibid., 316.
79
Ibid., 317.
80
Ibid., 372.
81
Burroughs, The Saints' Happiness, 192.
82
Granger, A Looking Glasse for Christians, [26].
83
Witsius, Economy of the Covenants, 1:452-53.
84
Workes of Perkins, 1:82, 369.
85
Drake, Puritan Sermons, 5:334; cf. Works of Owen, 2:218-21, and Burroughs, The Saints' Happiness,
196.