tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302336688024254327.post3388220998417021574..comments2010-09-08T12:37:03.573+01:00Comments on Wholehearted: Jesus the gentle healer... for nowPetehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627312248132772890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302336688024254327.post-13598146232240401232009-05-25T15:07:56.980+01:002009-05-25T15:07:56.980+01:00Thanks, that's helpful.Thanks, that's helpful.étrangèrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802871565840479439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302336688024254327.post-49582683798839350122009-05-25T11:54:29.959+01:002009-05-25T11:54:29.959+01:00I'm just working through that section at the momen...I'm just working through that section at the moment. The first part is undoubtedly the best, but I've just been taking his stuff on bringing justice to victory in the life of the believer as being his particular focus, rather than insisting that he views it as the whole truth on the matter. <br /><br />Maybe it's something we're just a lot hotter on nowadays, and not something that was a particular emphasis in Sibbes' day - in my very limited experience, I don't think you often find the Puritans working in big redemptive-historical brushstrokes. My assumption has been that that was stuff they 'obviously' believed (since everybody did) and so they didn't feel the need to elucidate it. The crying need they saw was for this deep, personal religion that gave rise to their characteristic focus on the inner life of the believer.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10627312248132772890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302336688024254327.post-30379151459470424672009-05-22T20:22:51.738+01:002009-05-22T20:22:51.738+01:00I'd be interested in your take on Sibbes' take on ...I'd be interested in your take on Sibbes' take on the 'until he brings justice to victory'. I've just finished it, and was as lot less sure of that than of the earlier chapters. Seems to take it as being the work of completion of righteousness in the believer, exclusively?étrangèrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802871565840479439noreply@blogger.com