-Herman Hoeksema in Reformed Dogmatics (pp. 477-478)

It stands to reason that it is only through the gospel, as contained in the Scriptures, that the Spirit calls unto life and light... They may not change the Word of God into a well-meaning offer of salvation to all men on the part of God. Ever and everywhere they must be nothing but ministri verbi divini. And that Word, carried upon the vehicle of a human proclamation, makes alive and kills, is a savor of life unto life, but also a savor of death unto death. Even through the preaching of the gospel God is merciful unto whom He will be merciful, but He also hardens whom He wills. Anyone who does not want to serve this two-fold purpose can never be a minister of the Word of God. But he who, through divine grace, has learned to will this purpose of God may be assured that in the proclamation of the gospel he is always well pleasing to God Who sent him.

- Did you know

that PCA mega-church pastor D. James Kennedy hosted a “PTL Crusade” at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church that included Paul and Jan Crouch of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN)? Kennedy and the Crouches also teamed up for the Call to Prayer for America. Paul Crouch later said, “God is bringing His church together! The old denominational barriers are coming down! Just a few months ago, we had the privilege of joining with Dr. D. James Kennedy and many pastors and ministers from across our nation for a great Call to Prayer for America!” Kennedy also appeared on the Crouches’ TBN show on 5/17/94 to promote his new book, What if Jesus Had Never Been Born? Kennedy's religious associations include Billy Graham, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, E.V. Hill, Zig Ziglar, Promise Keepers, and Rapha.

-Pope John Paul II, April 1997 “Beware: the Pope speaketh.” (ed)

...Having created man ‘male and female,’ the Lord also wants to place the New Eve beside the New Adam in the Redemption... Mary, the New Eve, thus becomes a perfect icon of the Church... We can therefore turn to the Blessed Virgin, trustfully imploring her aid in the awareness of the singular role entrusted to her by God, the role of co-operator in the Redemption...

-Herman Hoeksema in Reformed Dogmatics (pp. 216-217)

Hence, according to the presentation of Dr. Hodge, there would have come a moment in Adam’s life, had he not sinned, when the period of probation was finished and when the promise would have been fulfilled to him, so that he would have entered into immortality and eternal life. He would have been changed...That the relation between God and Adam in the state of righteousness was a covenant relation we readily admit. But that this covenant should be an established agreement between Adam and his Creator, consisting of a condition, a promise, and a penalty, and that it was essentially a means whereby Adam might work himself up to the highest state of eternal life and heavenly glory that is now attained by the believers in Christ, we deny... [I]t is quite impossible that man should merit a special reward with God.

-Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that it is so popular with all classes ought to be enough to arouse the suspicions of those who are subject to the Word of Truth. God’s love toward all His creatures is the fundamental and favorite tenet of Universalists, Unitarians, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Spiritualists, Russellites, etc... So widely has this dogma been proclaimed, and so comforting is it to the heart which is at enmity with God, we have little hope of convincing many of their error... To tell the Christ-rejector that God loves him is to cauterize his conscience as well as to afford him a sense of security in his sins. The fact is, the love of God is a truth for the saints only, and to present it to the enemies of God is to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

-John Owen (1616-1683), in A Display of Arminianism

Satan hath depths where to hide, and methods how to broach his lies; and never did any of his emissaries employ his received talents with more skill and diligence than our Arminians...