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								Marks of God's Children, The 160pp, pbk Jean Taffin; James A. De Fong, ed; Peter Y. De Jong, trans. Jean Taffin (c. 1529-1602) served as chaplain to Prince William of Orange for ten years.  James A De Jong (Th.D., Free University, Amsterdam) is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary.  Peter Y. De Jong (Ph.D., Hartford Theological Seminary) is professor emeritus at Mid-America Reformed Seminary. List Price:  US$14.99; Our Price:  S$18.00 Baker Book House
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					First published in 1585, this book became an instant classic in Dutch and French Reformed circles.  Weary from the spiritual warfare waged during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Taffin offered comfort and encouragement to the peoples of sixteenth-century Europe.  Grounded in Reformed confessional orthodoxy, this spirutal reflection provides an astute understanding of the "marks" of God's grace and salvation that is still relevant today.
						CONTENTS Series Preface Introduction To the Faithful in the Low Country 1.   Blessedness (Concerning the great & incomprehensible blessedness of eternal life promised to God's children) 2.   Assurance (How we know that we are children of God) 3.   Appropriating the Marks (How every church member should appropriate these distinguishing marks to be assured of His adoption & salvation) 4.   Small, Weak Marks (Although the distinguishing marks of our adoption are small & weak, we may & should nevertheless be assured that we are children of God) 5.   Apostasy & Doubt (The apostasy & falling away of some who once confessed the true religion may not cause us to doubt either doctrine or our status as God's children) 6.   Sufferings & the Marks (Suffering should not cause us to doubt our adoption but serve rather to strengthen us) 7.   Suffering Prophesied (The sufferings we experience have been prophesied & therefore should strengthen us in the assurance of our adoption as God's children) 8.   Oppressed but Loved (The children of God have always been oppressed yet they are continally loved by Him) 9.   Fruits as Evidences (The sufferings so universal among Adam's children are with regard to their precious fruits, the evidences for God's children of their adoption & of His love for them) 10. Suffering & Fruit (Concerning suffering in the name of Christ and its fruit) 11. The Fruit of Persecution (Other fruit of the persecutions we suffer for the name of Jesus Christ) 12. Perseverance in Persecution (An admonition to persevere steadfastly in the truth of the gospel in times of persecution) 13. Holy Meditations & Prayers Prayers Drawn from Paul's Epistles Thoughts Drawn from St. Augustine Dutch Reformed Translation Society