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Definition of Monergism: The view that the Holy Spirit is the only agent who effects regeneration of Christians. It is in contrast with synergism, the view that there is a cooperation between the divine and the human in the regeneration process. Monergism is a redemptive blessing purchased by Christ for those the Father has given Him (1 Pet 1:3, John 3:5,6, 6:37, 39). This grace works independently of any human cooperation and conveys that power into the fallen soul whereby the person who is to be saved is effectually enabled to respond to the gospel call (John 1:13; Acts 2:39, 13:48; Rom 9:16). More...

• "...Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life? ... If you would enter life, keep the commandments." (Matt 19:15-17) "For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them (Ro 10:5). [but] The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me (Ro 7:10). "For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it." (Jas 2:10) ...and "the soul that sins shall die" (Ez 18:20). But "God [sent] his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh ... in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us" (Ro 8:3-4).

  
  "For as by the one man's disobedience [Adam] the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience [Christ] the many will be made righteous." - Rom. 5:19

  
  "...the Lord Christ fulfilled the whole law for us; He did not only undergo the penalty of it due unto our sins, but also yielded that perfect obedience which it did require... Christ's fulfilling of the law, in obedience unto its commands, is no less imputed unto us for our justification than His undergoing the penalty of it is." - John Owen

  
  Christ has Redeemed Us Through the Whole Course of His Obedience
  John Calvin

  
  An Introduction to the Gospel: A Covenant Theology Primer
  by John Hendryx

  
  The Covenant of Works by Wayne Grudem
  

  
  A View of the Covenant of Works Thomas Boston

  
  Abraham and Sinai Contrasted in Galatians 3:6-14 (.pdf) by T. David Gordon

  
  The Decalogue:Covenant of Works or Covenant of Grace
  Herman Witsius (1636-1708)

  
  Covenant of Works by R. C. Sproul

  
  The Covenant of Works: Excerpt from The Marrow of Modern Divinity by Edward Fisher

  
  The Law Renders Us Inexcusable and Drives Us Into Despair by John Calvin

  
  How Christ is rightly and properly said to have merited grace and salvation for us by John Calvin

  
  Basics of the Reformed Faith: The Covenant of Works by Kim Riddlebarger

  
  The Covenant of Grace: A Key to Understanding the Bible by Calvin Knox Cummings

  
  The Covenant of Grace and Its Twofold Economy in the Old and New Testaments by Francis Turretin

  
  Five Arguments for the Unity of the Covenant of Grace
  by Robert Reymond

  
  The Covenant of Grace by Charles Hodge

  
  The Active Obedience of Christ by Wayne Grudem

  
  The Active Obedience of Christ J Gresham Machen

  
  "God knoweth we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requireth no more than he giveth, and giveth what he requireth, and accepteth what he giveth."
  - Richard Sibbes

  
  The excommunication from the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:22-24) confirms the probationary nature of the covenant of works. The first Gospel promise in Genesis 3:15 announces the covenant of grace, i.e. redemption of the elect by the Mediator. The covenant of grace is the progressive historical account of the administration of the Gospel in the history of redemption. The Abrahamic covenant is a renewal of the postlapsarian covenant/promise made to Adam (Genesis 3:15; 17). In the history of redemption, the covenant of grace was renewed in Abraham such that he is the father of all who believe (Romans 4:11; John 8:56). The Abrahamic covenant is logically as well as historically prior to the Mosaic. The Mosaic covenant was not renewed under Christ, but the Abrahamic covenant was.For other uses, see Canaan (disambiguation). ... The New Covenant is new relative to Moses, not Abraham. The New Covenant is the fulfillment of the promise made to Adam (Genesis 3:15) and the (Abrahamic) covenant of grace. The New Covenant is the reality typified by the pre-incarnational types and shadows (2 Corinthians 1:20; John 6:32; Hebrews 7-9).
  - R. Scott Clark

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Church History
"It is wrong to suppose that the doctrine of justification by faith alone, that storm center of the Reformation, was the crucial question in the minds of such theologians as Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer, and John Calvin. This doctrine was important to the Reformers because it helped to express and to safeguard their answer to another, more vital, question, namely, whether sinners are wholly helpless in their sin, and whether God is to be thought of as saving them by free, unconditional, invincible grace, not only justifying them for Christ's sake when they come to faith, but also raising them from the death of sin by His quickening Spirit in order to bring them to faith." - Michael Haykin