Another quality eBook from Chapel Library! This issue of the Free Grace Broadcaster delves into the theology of bearing children from a biblical perspective. Babies are made in God’s image, God’s elect come from babies, and God’s promise of salvation was promised and fulfilled in a baby. “She shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins” (Mat 1:20-21). Babies are important. Explore this fascinating subject with Reformers like Calvin and Luther, as well as the Puritans.
John Calvin introduces this vital subject by explaining the created majesty of men and women and by carefully pointing out that God designed their bodies to conceive and bear children. Martin Luther reminds us that God commanded men and women to be fruitful and multiply. The Puritan Thomas Manton boldly declares that children are a heritage of the Lord and His reward. Once God blesses us with children, what do we do with them? To answer this question, J. R. Miller gives a wonderful survey of loving and caring for our babies. What did Paul mean when he wrote that women would be “saved in childbearing”? Stephen Charnock, another Puritan preacher and theologian, gives us a good answer to this knotty question. Richard Adams, yet another Puritan preacher, gives us an overview of the four necessary graces for bearing children and gives us a second article regarding the best encouragement and support for childbearing women. A. W. Pink explains Sarah’s great faith in conceiving a baby in her old age. Puritan Thomas Jacombe gives comfort to those who cannot have children. And, finally, Thomas Boston tells us about the most important baby ever born.
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