The Marks of God's Children (Classics of Reformed Spirituality) - Softcover

Taffin, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801026199 ISBN 13: 9780801026195

Publisher: Baker Academic, 2003

Synopsis

Jean Taffin is often called the father of the Dutch Second Reformation. He was a central figure in the development of Reformed doctrine and believed that true doctrine, faithful living, and healthy church and civic life were interrelated. First published in 1585, The Marks of God's Children offered comfort and encouragement to the people of sixteenth-century Europe who were weary from the spiritual warfare waged during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Based on Reformed principles, this spiritual reflection provides an intelligent understanding of the ''marks'' or ''proofs'' of God's wonderful grace and salvation.

Table of Contents:
1. Blessedness
- Concerning the Great and Incomprehensible Blessedness of Eternal Life Promised to God's Children
2. Assurance
- How We Know that We are Children of God
3. Appropriating the Marks
- How Every Church Member Should Appropriate These Distinguishing Marks to Be Assured of His Adoption and Salvation
4. 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
5. 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
6. Sufferings and the Marks
- Sufferings Should not Cause us to Doubt our Adoption but serve Rather to Strengthen Us
7. Suffering Prophesied
- The Sufferings We Experience Have Been Prophesied and Therefore Should Strengthen Us in the Assurance of Our Adoption as God's Children
8. Oppressed but Loved
- The Children of God Have Always Been Oppressed, Yet They are Continually Loved by Him
9. Fruits as Evidence
- The Sufferings so Universal among Adam's Children are, with Regards to Their Precious Fruits, the Evidences for God's Children of Their Adoption and for Them
10. Suffering and Fruit
- Concerning Suffering in the Name of Christ and Its Fruit
11. The Fruit of Persecution
- Other Fruit of the Persecutions We Suffer for the Name of Jesus Christ
12. Perseverance in Persecution
- An Admonition to Persevere Steadfastly in the Truth of the Gospel in Times of Persecution
13. Holy Meditations and Prayers
Prayers Drawn from Paul's Epistles Thoughts Drawn from St. Augustine

About this title

About the Author

Jean Taffin (c. 1529-1602) served as chaplain to Prince William of Orange for ten year.

Peter Y. DeJong (Ph.D., Hartford Theological Seminary) is professor emeritus at Mid-America Reformed Seminary.

James A. De Jong (Th.D., Free University, Amsterdam) is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0801026199
• ISBN 13: 9780801026195
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160