Dylan Rowland

“Where does Christ rule as king? His kingdom is spiritual. He rules in the hearts of men. He sets up his throne where no other king does; he rules the will and affections; his power binds the conscience; he subdues men's lusts. "He will subdue our iniquities." Mic 7:19.”
― Thomas Watson, The Works of Thomas Watson

“A political theory that pays no attention to the reality of sin . . . remains stillborn; it is a rarefied abstraction that fails to take real life into account.”
― Mark J Larson, Abraham Kuyper, Conservatism, and Church and State

“Reformation theology historically has argued that man’s sin is not an ontological but a moral-ethical problem. Man is a covenant breaker. He is redeemed by meeting a stranger—Christ, who redeems him. Grace redeems nature. The difference is not between nature and grace but sin and grace.5 Moreover, man encounters this stranger within a context, namely, that of covenant.”
― J.V. Fesko, Word, Water, and Spirit: A Reformed Perspective on Baptism

“It is not that man overcomes his estrangement as his soul deals directly with God in some sort of mystical experience.7 Rather, Jesus the stranger condescends to fallen man. This means that man’s redemption is inextricably bound with redemptive history, as God has progressively revealed Himself in covenant to His corporate people, culminating in His revelation in Christ. Knowledge of God is openly revealed in the concrete events of redemptive history in God’s condescension to His fallen creatures.”
― J.V. Fesko, Word, Water, and Spirit: A Reformed Perspective on Baptism