Collected Writings of John Mur

Standing on the shoulders of the best theologians ever to appear in succession - the Hodges, BB Warfield, and Geerhardus Vos, John Murray represents the pinnacle of theological achievement in the modern world. The incredible responsibility of continuing the role of world-renown Bible expositor and distinguished theologian, was humbly, yet fully demonstrated by John Murray through excellence in biblical theism. And therefore, in this reviewer's opinion, the most trustworthy and competent theology to ever appear would be this present volume. It is second to none. Systematic theologians of the modern order, such as Millard Erickson, Robert L Reymond, Tom Schreiner, Wayne Grudem (and even Arnold Fruchtenbaum, although he does not state his sources) have extensively referred to and satisfyingly quoted from this masterpiece. It can simply not be outdone. Collected articles, addresses, sermons and lectures have posthumously been compiled in this work. 'Here we have unsearchable wisdom, facets of revelation that pertain to ways past finding out.' 'This is to say that there must be in the eternal plan or design as archetype, what corresponds to that which is fulfilled in execution. God the Father sent His Son into the world to redeem men. This central fact in accomplishment must have been central in the design.' 2:124 'By the incarnation and by taking the form of a servant, the Son came to sustain new relations to the Father and the Holy Spirit. He became subject to the Father and dependent upon the operations of the Holy Spirit. It is our Lord's servanthood that advertises this subordination more than any other office.' 2:139 'The fact that calling is an act of God, and of God alone, should impress upon us the divine monergism in the initiation of salvation in actual procession. We become partakers of redemption by an act of God that instates us in the realm of salvation, and all the corresponding changes in us and in our attitudes and reactions are the result of the saving forces at work within the realm into which, by God's sovereign and efficacious act, we have been ushered. The call, as that by which the predestinating purpose begins to take effect, is in this respect of divine monergism after the pattern of predestination itself. It is of God and God alone.' The Call, 2:166 'It would be exegetically impossible to exclude from the scope of the spiritual blessing the blessings specified in the immediately succeeding context - adoption (Eph 1:5), redemption and forgiveness of sins (vs 7), the knowledge of the mystery of God's will (vs 9), the inheritance (vs 11), and the seal of the Holy Spirit as the earnest of this inheritance (vss 13, 14). Hence the election is logically and causally prior to all blessing bestowed. In accordance with which all spiritual blessing is bestowed and is in the possession of the believer, is something that antedates all history, namely election. This order cannot be reversed. Anything that falls into the category