The Gospel Offer

~The Gospel Offer~

Ball, Nathanael (1623–1689) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB

• Nathanael Ball on Christ’s Real Offer
• Nathanael Ball on Despising Christ’s Offers and Messages of Love 
• Nathanael Ball on Christ’s Earnest Offer of Liberty
• Remaining Quotes that Highlight the Revealed Will of God in Nathanael Ball’s Spiritual Bondage and Freedom
• Nathanael Ball on Pleading, not Merely Publishing 

Bates, William (1625–1699) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• William Bates on God’s Earnest Offer

Bavinck, Herman (1854–1921) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• Herman Bavinck on the External Call and Gospel Offer

Berkhof, Louis (1873–1957) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• Louis Berkhof on the Bona Fide Character of the External Call

Bownd/Bound, George (d.1662) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: N/A

• George Bownd/Bound on God’s Proffered Blessedness Unto Sinners and Heaven Begging

Boyce, James P. (1827–1888) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• James P. Boyce on the Sincerity of the Gospel Offer

Brooks, Thomas (1608–1680) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB, MTP Writings: PRDL

• Thomas Brooks on God Kneeling to Sinners in the Offers of Grace

Byfield, Nicholas (1579–1622) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• Nicholas Byfield on the Season and Offers of Grace

Calvin, John (1509–1564) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• John Calvin on Those Who Hear and Those Who Don’t 
• John Calvin on God’s Boundless Display of Goodness in the Gospel Call 
• John Calvin and Matthew Henry on Acts 3:26
• John Calvin on the Gospel Invitation and Offer, Universal Promises, and the Gift of Faith
• John Calvin on John 12:47
• John Calvin on John 3:16

Chalmers, Thomas (1780–1847) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• Thomas Chalmers on God and the Gospel Offer

Charnock, Stephen (1628–1680) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Stephen Charnock on God Begging and His Affectionate Invitations 
• Stephen Charnock on God’s Sincere Gospel Offers 
• Stephen Charnock on God’s Importunate Entreaties

Clagett, Nicholas (c.1610–1663) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB

• Nicholas Clagett on Abusing God’s Condescension in the Offer of Grace

Cunningham, William (1805–1861) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB 

• William Cunningham on God’s Preceptive Will and the Offers of the Gospel

Dabney, R. L. (1820–1898) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• R. L. Dabney on God’s Threefold Design in the Common Call

Edwards, Jonathan (1703–1758) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Jonathan Edwards on the Sincerity of God’s Calls and Invitations

Flavel, John (1630–1691) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• John Flavel on Christ Knocking: Chapter 1 
• John Flavel on Christ Knocking: Chapter 2 
• John Flavel on Christ Knocking: Chapter 3 
• John Flavel on Christ Knocking: Chapter 4 
• John Flavel on Christ Knocking: Chapter 5 
• John Flavel on Christ Knocking: Chapter 6 
• John Flavel on Christ Begging

†Ford, Thomas (1598–1674) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB Writings: PRDL

• Thomas Ford on the Death of Christ and the Sinner’s Self-Condemnation

Gale, Theophilus (1628–1678) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Theophilus Gale on Christ’s Heart in the Gospel Offer
• Theophilus Gale on Christ’s Affections, Gracious Invitations and Willingness to Save

Gray, Andrew (1634–1656) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Andrew Gray on Christ’s Seriousness and the Great Salvation
• Andrew Gray on Christ’s Five Glorious Robes

Greenhill, William (1591–1671) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• A William Greenhill Observation on Ezekiel 33:11
• William Greenhill on the Ingratitude of Rejecting Christ’s Free Offer

Grosvenor, Benjamin (1675–1758) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Benjamin Grosvenor on The Temper of Jesus  and God’s Offers of Grace
• More Quotes from Benjamin Grosvenor’s The Temper of Jesus

Gurnall, William (1617–1679) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• William Gurnall on God Begging

†Harris, Robert (1581–1658) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• Robert Harris on God Begging in His Calls and Offers of Grace

Heywood, Nathaniel (1633–1677) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB Writings: N/A

• Nathaniel Heywood on God’s Offer of His Son to Save Thee

Heywood, Oliver (1630–1702) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Oliver Heywood on God’s Cordial Wish

Hodge, Archibald Alexander (1823–1886) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• A. A. Hodge on God’s Kind, Honest, Free and Loving Offer

Horton, Thomas (†1673) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Thomas Horton on God’s Gracious Offer and Tender of Salvation

Hulse, Erroll (1931–2017) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Personal Page

• Erroll Hulse’s Definition of an “Offer”
• Erroll Hulse on the Connection Between Common Grace and the Free Offer 

Keach, Benjamin (1640–1704) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Benjamin Keach on God’s Sincere Offers
• Benjamin Keach on Christ’s Offer of Love
• Benjamin Keath on Abusing Offers of Love and Preparation for Death
• Benjamin Keach’s Notes Related to Matthew 23:37

Knollys, Hanserd (1599–1691) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Hanserd Knollys on Revelation 3:20

Knox, John (c.1514–1572) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Donald John MacLean on John Knox, the Gospel Offer, Common Grace, and God’s Universal Love

Larkham, Thomas (1602–1669) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB

• Thomas Larkham on God’s Patience and Fair Offers

Manlove, Timothy (1633–1699) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB

• Timothy Manlove on Offers of Gospel-Grace

Manton, Thomas (1620–1677) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Thomas Manton on God Begging
• Thomas Manton on God Begging
• Thomas Manton on God’s General Love in Sending a Savior, and His Alike Favor in the Free Offers of Grace
• Thomas Manton Comparing the Elect with the Reprobate 

Mather, Increase (1639–1723) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Increase Mather on the Nature of Sinning Against the Gospel

Murray, Iain H. (1931–) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, Monergism

• Iain Murray on the Sincerity of God’s Offer
• From Iain Murray’s Correspondence with David Engelsma 

Murray, John (1898–1975) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• John Murray on Hyper-Calvinism and the Free Offer

Nalton, James (c.1600–1662) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB

• James Nalton on Christ’s Calls and Invitations

Nettleton, Asahel (1783–1844) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, Nettles Writings: Tyler

• Asahel Nettleton on 2 Corinthians 5:20
• Asahel Nettleton on Romans 2:4
• Asahel Nettleton on Revelation 3:20
• Remaining Quotes by Asahel Nettleton on the Free Offer and the Death of Christ 

†Newcomen, Matthew (c.1610–1669) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Matthew Newcomen on Offers of Grace and the Damned Being Without Excuse

Pearse, Edward (c.1633–c.1674) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB

• Edward Pearse on Christ’s Offers of Grace and Loving Invitations

Pinke, William (c.1599–1629) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• William Pinke on Christ’s Fair Offers of Salvation

Rogers, Daniel (1573–1652) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• Daniel Rogers on God’s Well-Meaning and Loving Offer of Grace

Shedd, W. G. T. (1820–1894) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• The Basis of W. G. T. Shedd’s Universal Offer 
• More from W. G. T. Shedd on the Universal Gospel Offer

Shepard, Thomas (1605–1649) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• Thomas Shepard on the Free Offer as God’s Common Love 

Shower, John (1657–1715) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• John Shower on Christ’s Offers of Life

Sibbes, Richard (1577–1635) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• A Richard Sibbes Comment on Christ’s Death and Offers of Salvation

Spring, Gardiner (1785–1873) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, M&S

• Gardiner Spring on the Accessibility of the Cross to All

Spurgeon, Charles (1834–1892) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki

• C. H. Spurgeon on God Begging

Stuckley, Lewis (c.1621–1687) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: MTP Writings: PRDL

• Lewis Stuckley on God’s Offers and Tenders of Grace

Swinnock, George (1627–1673) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB Writings: PRDL

• George Swinnock on Universal Offers of Grace
• George Swinnock on Christ’s Death, His Willingness to Save, and the “Well-Offered” Gospel
• George Swinnock’s “Well-Offered” Gospel
• More from George Swinnock on God’s Tenders and Offers
• George Swinnock on What Will Aggravate the Misery of the Damned

Taylor, Thomas (1576–1633) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• Thomas Taylor on God’s Offers of Peace and Christ’s Loving Invitation

Various Authors: 

• Offered and Offerable Distinctions 
• R. B. Kuiper Quote on God’s Bona Fide Offer
• A Few Free Offer Quotes 
• Various Confessions and the Gospel Offer 
• The Sincerity of the Gospel Offer: Consistent with an Unconditional Election? 
• The Sincerity of the Gospel Offer: Consistent with Limited Imputation? 
• Offer Terminology in Beza, Zanchius and Ames 
• God Begging? 
• Dr. Samuel Waldron on the 1689 LBC and God’s Saving Will 
• John MacArthur on the Sincerity of the Gospel Offer 
• The Wooing Note
• Anthony Hoekema on Article 8 and the Mission Focus of the Canons of Dort
• Pierre-Charles Marcel on the Call of God and the Gospel Offer
• Malcolm Watts on “The Necessity and Justification for the Free Offer of the Gospel”
• David Silversides on the Warrant of Faith and the Free Offer of the Gospel in the Westminster Standards
• Dr. Cornelis P. Venema on Christ’s Disposition Toward Jerusalem; With His Refutation of James White on Matt. 23:37
• Cornelis Venema on Three Views of the Gospel-Call
• Joel Beeke and Mark Jones on the Universal Invitation to Come to Christ in Puritan Theology
• Donald MacLean on the Term “Offer” in James Durham (1622–1658)
• Donald MacLean on the Sincerity of the Gospel Offer in James Durham (1622–1658)
• Greg Nichols on Dort, the Free Offer and Hyper-Calvinism
• Barry H. Howson on Gill, Knollys and the First Tenet of Hyper-Calvinism: The Denial of the Free Offer
• Leonard Verduin on the Reformed Faith and Symmetrism
• S. Lewis Johnson (1915–2004) on the Universal Offer and God’s Desire for the Salvation of All Men
• Alexander C. De Jong on an Obscuration in the Free Offer Debate
• A Response to R. C. Sproul’s Answer to My Question on the Well-Meant Offer
• Al Martin Agrees With John Murray On The Free Offer
• Paul Zylstra Defines the Well-Meant Offer
• Robert A. Peterson on the Well-Intentioned Offer and Hyper-Calvinism
• Maurice Roberts on the Free Offer of the Gospel and Dutch-American Hyper-Calvinism
• Iain Murray’s Review of David Silversides’s Book on the Free Offer
• John Brentnall on John Calvin and the Free Offer
• D. A. Carson on the Love of God, the Free Offer and Hyper-Calvinism
• David Gay on the Free Offer and Incipient Hyper-Calvinism
• The Components of an ‘Offer’ According to Herman Hoeksema (1886–1965)
• Robert Godfrey on the Concerns of the Moderates at Dort
• Dr. Curt Daniel on the Free Offer, The Will of God and Hyper-Calvinism
• Arthur W. Kuschke’s Response to the Minority Report on the Free Offer of the Gospel 
• Cornelis P. Venema on the Doctrine of Preaching and the Well-Meant Offer in the Canons of Dort
• J. I. Packer on God’s Love, Will, and His Bona Fide Offer

Venning, Ralph (c.1621–1674) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• Ralph Venning on God’s Offers, Grace, Goodness, Patience and Mercy

Vincent, Nathaniel (c.1639–1697) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB Writings: PRDL

• The Revealed Will in Nathaniel Vincent’s The Conversion of a Sinner: Part 1 
• The Revealed Will in Nathaniel Vincent’s The Conversion of a Sinner: Part 2
• Nathaniel Vincent on the Possible Salvation of the Reprobate Drawn from the Son’s Incarnation
• Nathaniel Vincent on Christ’s Four-Fold Compassion on Them That Perish 

†Vines, Richard (c.1600–1656) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• Richard Vines on God’s Earnest Offers of Grace

Votier, James (b. 1622) Citation(s): Tab/Label Bio: FAE

• James Votier on the Offer and Tender of Christ in the Gospel

Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: N/A

• B. B. Warfield on the Westminster Confession, the Love of God, and the Universal Sincere Offer of Salvation in Christ

Whately, William (1583–1639) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: DNB, Brook Writings: PRDL

• William Whately on the Will of God

Whittaker, William (1629–1672) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki, DNB

• William Whittaker on Slighting God’s Glorious Inheritance

Wigglesworth, Michael (1631–1705) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Michael Wigglesworth on the Last Judgment

Willard, Samuel (1640–1707) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Wiki Writings: PRDL

• Samuel Willard on God’s Good Will in the Gospel Offer

Williams, William (1685–1741) Citation(s): Tag/Label Bio: Annals of the American Pulpit

• William Williams on the Nature of God’s Gospel Offer

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See also the indexes on “The Well-Meant Offer” at the Calvin and Calvinism site here (click). Below is a copy of the index:

The Well-Meant Offer

1. Sarcerius Erasmus (1501–1559) on the Gospel
2. Philip Melancthon (1497–1560) on the Free Offer With Reference to John 3:16
3. John Calvin (1509–1564) on How the Gospel Hardens
4. John Calvin (1509–1564) on the Free Offer of the Gospel (Selection)
5. John Calvin (1509–1564) on the Well-Meant Offer by way of Isaiah 65:2 and Romans 10:21
6. Augustine Marlorate (1506–1562) on the Well-Meant Offer
7. Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1563) on the Free Offer
8. Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575) on the Call and Offer of the Gospel
9. Thomas Lever (1521–1577) on the Earnest Call and the Death of Christ
10. John Foxe (1517–1587) on the Free Offer of God’s Friendship
11. Jean Taffin (1529–1602), The Offer of the Gospel: What it is, and What it is Not
12. Daniel Tossanus (1541–1602) on the Gracious Call of the Gospel
13. Robert Rollock (c.1555–1599) on the Grace Call of God to the Elect and to the Reprobate
14. Lucas Trelcatius (1573–1607) on the Gracious Call and General Love to all Men
15. John Preston (1587–1628) on the Well-Meant Offer
16. John Ball (1585–1640) on the Free Offer of the Gospel
17. Thomas Shepard (1605–1649) on the Free Offer of the Gospel and the Lord’s Desire for the Salvation of Men
18. Richard Vines (1600–1655/6) on the Free Offer
19. John Owen (1616–1683) on the Sufficiency of Christ’s Death as the Foundation of the Gospel Offer
20. Thomas Jacombe (1623–1687) on the Well-Meant Offer
21. Francis Turretin (1623–1687) on the Common Call
22. William Burkitt (1650–1703) on the Universal Tenders of the Gracious Gospel by way of Titus 2:11-12
23. The Gracious Offer of the Gospel by way of Titus 2:11-12 from the Matthew Henry Commentaries
24. Wilhemus a’ Brakel (1635–1711) on the Gracious Call and Gospel Offer
25. Thomas Halyburton (1674–1712) on the Free Offer of the Gospel
26. Johannes VanderKemp (1664–1718) on the Well-Meant Offer
27. Thomas Ridgeley (c.1667–1734) on the Free Offer
28. Samuel Davies (1723–1761) on the Free Offer in Relation to the Death of Christ
29. Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813–1843) on the Offer and Call of Christ
30. Robert Balmer (1787–1844) on the Free Offer of the Gospel and God’s Will and Desire for the Salvation of All Men
31. Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) on Particular Redemption and the Well-Meant Gospel Offer
32. John Brown of Broughton (1784–1858) on John 3:16 in Relation to the Free Offer
33. William Bullein Johnson (1782–1862) on the Well-Meant Offer
34. Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) on the Well-Meant Offer in Relation to the Death of Christ
35. Henry B. Smith (1815–1877) on the Well-Meant Offer and God’s Desire for the Salvation of All Men
36. Charles Hodge (1797–1878) on The Universal and Free Offer of the Gospel
37. Robert Dabney (1820–1898) on the Offer and Call of the Gospel
38. W.G.T. Shedd (1820–1894) on the Free Offer of the Gospel
39. A.C. de Jong on the Free Offer: God Offers in and Through the Ministerial Offer
40. A.C. de Jong: The Gospel Call is a Call to Come to the Person of Christ; As Opposed to Assent to Facts and Commands
41. John Murray on the Well-Meant Offer
42. Samuel Waldron on the Free Offer in Relation to God’s Desire that All Men Be Saved

Limited Satisfaction and the Free Offer of the Gospel

1. Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) on the Satisfaction of Christ in Relation to the Free Offer
2. John Smalley (1734–1820) on the Satisfaction of Christ in Relation to the Free Offer
3. Erskine Mason (1805–1851) on the Satisfaction of Christ in Relation to the Free Offer
4. Ralph Wardlaw (1779–1853) on the Satisfaction of Christ in Relation to the Free Offer