Covenant Reformed News – June 2008 • Volume XII, Issue 2
This article from Covenant Reformed News expounds on election as the fountain of all the church's blessings, drawing on Reformed confessional sources including the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dort. The author demonstrates how God's eternal decree of election is the source from which faith, holiness, and all saving gifts flow to the elect, with particular attention to the doctrine of sanctification as it flows from election.
Election, the Fountain of the Church’s Blessings (1) In the last three issues of the News, we saw that election is the source of the church (Eph. 1:3-4). Thus the Reformers called election the cor ecclesiae, the heart or source of the church, and Wycliffe and Hus spoke of Christ’s church as “the company of the predestinate.” Now we shall see that election is not only the source of the church; it is also the fountain of all her blessings. Our Heidelberg Catechism declares that the “church [is]...