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by Alexander Comrie (Author), Bartel Elshout (Translator), Joel R. Beeke (Editor)
Distinctive Marks of Saving Faith is the ripe and mature expression of Alexander Comrie's warm, Christ-centered, and experiential ministry. In fourteen chapters, he presents a multifaceted scriptural exposition of saving faith and its various exercises, a work in which he consistently exhorts struggling and established believers to embrace Christ and all His benefits. His overarching aim is to promote the simplicity of the gospel. Explore the infinite value of faith and the God-given means of uniting an infinitely rich and precious Christ and a bankrupt sinner.
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Distinctive Marks of Saving Faith is the ripe and mature expression of Alexander Comrie's warm, Christ-centered, and experiential ministry. In fourteen chapters, he presents a multifaceted scriptural exposition of saving faith and its various exercises, a work in which he consistently exhorts struggling and established believers to embrace Christ and all His benefits. His overarching aim is to promote the simplicity of the gospel. Explore the infinite value of faith and the God-given means of uniting an infinitely rich and precious Christ and a bankrupt sinner.
Author Biography
Alexander Comrie (1706-1774) was born in Perth, Scotland. As a youth, he was catechized by Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine and was greatly influenced by the writings of Thomas Boston. He moved to the Netherlands as a young man to work but eventually studied at the universities of Groningen and Leiden, where he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy. He developed into an able preacher and served the parish of Woubrugge, where he was pastor for thirty-eight years.
Bartel Elshout is the pastor of the Kalamazoo Reformed Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has translated numerous Reformed works from Dutch to English, including Wilhelmus à Brakel's The Christian's Reasonable Service and Theodore VanderGroe's The Christian's Only Comfort in Life and Death.
Joel R. Beeke is chancellor of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He also serves as a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregations in Grand Rapids.
