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Justification and Regeneration: Practical Writings on Saving Faith (Witherspoon)

Justification and Regeneration: Practical Writings on Saving Faith (Witherspoon)

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Healthy doctrines of justification and regeneration have always been essential to the Christian's faith and knowledge of God. In the context of 18th century Great Britain and its American Colonies, few treatments were as highly regarded as John Witherspoon's An Essay on Justification and A Practical Treatise on Regeneration, both reprinted in this volume.

Providing a careful summary of Witherspoon's life and thought, Kevin DeYoung's introduction and notes are an invaluable guide to these classic works. Justification and Regeneration is both milk and solid food for the Christian–an incisive study of the converted person's standing before God, along with a pastoral exploration of the power of that conversion.

 

Author

John Witherspoon (1723-1794) was born in Scotland and ministered to two congregations there, Beith and in Paisley, before accepting an appointment as president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1768. Remembered today as the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, Witherspoon was perhaps best known in his defense of Reformed theology and pastoral emphasis on saving faith–as seen in his two popular theological works reprinted here.

 

Editor

Kevin DeYoung is senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, board chairman of The Gospel Coalition, and associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte. He is the author of The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon, in addition to many popular books, including Men and Women in the Church and Taking God at His Word. He and his wife, Trisha, have nine children.

 

Endorsements

“John Witherspoon is often portrayed as a patriot, academic, moralist, or churchman. These are all true. But here in these essays on justification and regeneration, carefully edited by Kevin DeYoung, we discover that Witherspoon was preeminently a theologian and gospel preacher. This descendent of John Knox was deeply committed to the imputation of the righteousness of Christ and the necessity of the new birth through the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. I’m grateful to Dr. DeYoung for pointing readers once again to what the influential college president, patriot, and Presbyterian preacher held to be ‘the doctrine of Christ, the Scripture method of salvation,’ and ‘fundamental truth,’ as well as the ‘substance of religion,’ namely that ‘except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ The works reprinted here are wonderful evidence that Witherspoon, the only clergyman who signed the Declaration of Independence, not only believed in the great American cause, but more importantly, believed in the cause of the cross of Christ.” - Peter A. Lillback,Westminster Theological Seminary

“We associate John Witherspoon mostly with his immense contribution to the American republic. Thanks to Kevin DeYoung, we can now see him also as a premier Reformed theologian defending the biblical doctrines of justification and the new birth in a revivalistic context not so different from our own. I am thrilled that these accessible essays can have a fresh impact on churches today.” -Michael Horton, Westminster Seminary California

“Kevin DeYoung’s edition of Justification and Regeneration is not only an excellent and informative resource but also engaging. The glorious hymn lyric—‘...He breaks the power of cancelled sin...’—comes alive. Knowing the implications of justification for ‘cancelled sin’ and the blessings of emancipation in the ‘breaking of the power of sin’ will be afresh and anew. More than a lyric, it will become transformative in your life and ministry.” - Harry Reeder III, Briarwood Presbyterian Church

“I have spent much of my academic career reading the works of English Particular Baptist divines in the long eighteenth century. But two of the key books that they avidly read and recommended were not written by an English Baptist but by the Scottish Presbyterian John Witherspoon. . . Witherspoon’s essays proved to be particularly helpful to these Calvinistic Baptists. Witherspoon on regeneration, with its link between the new birth and a life of virtue, helped them fight what Thomas Chalmers called ‘the hydra of Antinomianism.’ I am immensely pleased that these two classic works of Reformed theology are once again in print with their vital reminder of the nature of the Gospel. . .” - Michael A.G. Haykin, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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