Lord’s Day 31, Chapter 3: The Preaching of the Promise (2)

It follows that preaching of the gospel must needs be such that it points very definitely to those for whom the promise is intended, and that it excludes those that have no part in it. This is evidently the meaning of Question 84 and its answer. For thus, and thus only, can the kingdom of heaven be opened and shut by the preaching of the gospel. To all and every believer, according to this answer of the Heidelberg Catechism, the preaching of the gospel declares and publicly testifies that...