Prof. Robert Decker

satisfaction for all those people head for head. Never and nowhere in Scripture is the preacher charged to investigate that first, before he sends forth to his hearers the Gospel entrusted to him. For that matter he cannot even do this. What mere human is in a position to sift his fellow men and to separate the sheep from the goats? Indeed the elect, after their regeneration, make themselves known in part by their works. But even from that we still do not have absolute cer- tainty because...