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“Willful ignorance is in itself willful sin, and the evil that comes of it is without excuse.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Golden Alphabet: An Exposition of Psalm 119

“This absurd over-estimate of the importance of the moment of dying is the direct consequence of the rejection of the Bible doctrine of Perseverance and the substitution for it of a doctrine of Perfection as the meaning of Christ being our Saviour to the uttermost.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Studies in Perfectionism

“In short, doctrinally, Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it was theocentric and worshipful; and politically, it aimed to be scriptural and balanced.”
― Joel R. Beeke, Church History 101: The Highlights of Twenty Centuries

“While these ‘five points of Calvinism’ reveal a growing interest in predestination among Calvinists, they were drawn up to protect what the Calvinists believed were important truths denied by the Arminians. They were never intended to be a summary of Calvinist belief or Calvin’s own thought.”
― Michael Reeves, The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation