QUOTE (Philip Melanchthon) – Feb 15

“Those who have been renewed by the Spirit of Christ now conform voluntarily even without the Law to what the Law used to command. The Law is the will of God; the Holy Spirit is nothing else than the living will of God and its being in action.”
~Philip Melanchthon

In honor of Philip Melanchthon, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation and intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, who was born on this day in 1497.

Resources:

This Day in History for 15th February
Melanchthon’s 1521 Loci Communes: The First Protestant Apology

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QUOTE (John Knox) – Nov 24

“For herein stands the doubt whether that the unthankfulness of God’s children after they have once received mercy, grace and large benefits from God’s hands, doth so alienate the mind of God from them, that He beareth to them no manner of love, till they turn to Him by repentance. The contrary hereof we hold and affirm, not fearing to avow, that repentance, as it is joined to faith, which is the free gift of God, so it is the effect of God’s constant love toward them and no cause of the same.”

~ John Knox

In honor of John Knox, the Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation, who died on this day in 1572.

Sources:

Today in Christian History    

Quotes from John Knox