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威斯敏斯特信条第17章
第十七章 论圣徒的坚忍
中文赵中辉版
一、凡神在他爱子里收纳，并用他的灵有效地召选而成为圣洁的人，虽不能完全，也不能至终从恩典的地位中堕落；反要保守这地位，一直到底，永远得救1。
二、圣徒的这种坚守到底，并非由于他们自己的自由意志，乃在乎从父神白白而不变之爱所流出之拣选预旨的不变性2；也在乎耶稣的功德和代求的效力3；由于圣灵的同在和神的种子在他们里面4，并由于恩典之约的本质5。从此也生出耐久的确实性与无谬性6。
三、然而圣徒由于撒但和世界的试探，在他们心中仍存的败坏优势，并忽视他们坚守的方法，可能陷入大罪之中7，并一时在其中继续8。因此触犯神的怒气9，令圣灵担忧10，剥夺了所受的恩慈和安慰11，使心变为顽固12，良心受伤13，损害并毁谤他人14，自取今生的审判15。
1. 腓一6；彼后一10；约十28-29；约壹三9；彼前一5、9。
2. 提后二18-19；耶卅一3。
3. 来十10、14，十三20-21，九12-15，七25；罗八33-39；约十七11、24；路廿二32。
4. 约十四16-17；约壹二27，三9。
5. 耶卅二40；希八10-12。
6. 约十28；帖后三3；约壹二19；帖前五23-24。
7. 太廿六70、72、74。
8. 诗五十一标题，五十一14；撒下十二9、13。
9. 赛六十四5、7、9；撒下十一27。
10. 弗四30。
11. 诗五十一8、10、12；启二4；歌五2-4、6。
12. 赛六十三17；可六52，十六14；诗九十五8。
13. 诗卅二3-4，五十一8。
14. 撒下十二14。
15. 诗八十九31-32；林前十一32。
中文王志勇版
一．凡蒙上帝在祂爱子里 接纳并由祂的灵有效呼召并成圣的人，既不能完全，也不能最终从恩 典的地位堕落；反而会在这恩典的地位中坚忍到底，永远得救（腓1:6；彼后1:10；约10:28-29；约壹3:9；彼前1:5，9）。
二．圣徒的这种坚忍，并非依赖他们自己的自由意志，乃是依赖从父上帝白 白和永不更改的爱所发出的拣选预旨的不变性（提后2:18，19；耶 31:3），依赖耶稣基督功德和代求的效力（来10:10，14；13:20-21；9:12－15； 罗8；33－39；约17:11，24；路22:32；来7:25），圣灵的同在和上帝在他们里面播撒的种子（约14:16-17；约壹2:27；3:9），以及恩典之约的性质（耶32:40）。圣徒坚忍的确 定性和无谬性就是由此而生（约10:28；帖后3:3；约壹2:19）。
三． 然而圣徒因撒但和世界的试探，在他们里面败坏的残余，以及对保守他们坚忍的蒙恩之道的忽略，都可能使他们落入大罪之中（太26:70，72，74），并一时留在其中（诗51标题；51:14），因而惹动上帝的不悦（赛64:5，7，9；撒下11:27），叫圣灵担忧（弗4:30），失去诸多的美德和慰藉（诗51:8，10，12；启2:4；歌5:2－4，6），心里变得刚硬（赛63:17；可6:52；16:14），使良心受伤（诗32:3－4；51:8），使别人受损，诽谤亵渎（撒下12:14），自取今生的审判（诗89:31-32；林前11:32）。
第十七章 论圣徒的坚忍 中文吕沛渊版
17.1 凡上帝在祂爱子里收纳、有效呼召、且藉祂的灵成圣的人， 不 可能完全从恩典中堕落， 也不可能以堕落为最终的结局； 必会 在恩典中恒久忍耐到底， 永远得救。
17.2 圣徒这样恒忍， 并非根据他们自己的自由意志， 乃是根据: (1)拣选的旨意不会改变， 这旨意是出于父上帝白白的、不变的 爱；(2)耶稣的救赎之功和代求的效力；(3)圣灵与上帝的道种住在 他们里面；(4)恩典之约的本质。这些乃是圣徒恒忍的根基，使他 们得以确定恒忍到底、永不失落。
17.3 17.3然而聖徒仍可能因為: 撒但和世界的試探、存留在他們裡面敗壞的得勢、對保守他們恆忍之媒介的忽略，以致陷入大罪之中，並且暫時沉溺於其中。因這緣故，惹上帝不悅，使聖靈擔憂；失去許多恩典和安慰，心變剛硬，良心受傷；傷害並使他人跌倒犯罪， 自取今生的審判刑罰。
英文OPC版
CHAPTER 17 OF THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS
1. They, whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called, and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.
2. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ, the abiding of the Spirit, and of the seed of God within them, and the nature of the covenant of grace: from all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.
3. Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins; and, for a time, continue therein: whereby they incur God's displeasure, and grieve his Holy Spirit, come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts, have their hearts hardened, and their consciences wounded; hurt and scandalize others, and bring temporal judgments upon themselves.
英文CRTA版
Chapter XVII
Of the Perseverance of the Saints
I. They, whom God has accepted in His Beloved, effectually called, and sanctified by His Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.[1]
II. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father;[2] upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ,[3] the abiding of the Spirit, and of the seed of God within them,[4] and the nature of the covenant of grace:[5] from all which arises also the certainty and infallibility thereof.[6]
III. Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins;[7] and, for a time, continue therein:[8] whereby they incur God's displeasure,[9] and grieve His Holy Spirit,[10] come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts,[11] have their hearts hardened,[12] and their consciences wounded;[13] hurt and scandalize others,[14] and bring temporal judgments upon themselves.[15]
证明经文
1 腓一6我深信那在你们心里动了善工的，必成全这工，直到耶稣基督的日子。彼后一10所以弟兄们，应当更加殷勤，使你们所蒙的恩召和拣选坚定不移。你们若行这几样，就永不失脚。约十28-29我又赐给他们永生，他们永不灭亡，谁也不能从我手里把他们夺去。我父把羊赐给我，他比万有都大，谁也不能从我父手里把他们夺去。约壹三9凡从 神生的，就不犯罪，因 神的道（注：原文作“种”）存在他心里；他也不能犯罪，因为他是由 神生的。彼前一5你们这因信蒙 神能力保守的人，必能得着所预备、到末世要显现的救恩。9并且得着你们信心的果效，就是灵魂的救恩。
2 提后二18-19他们偏离了真道，说复活的事已过，就败坏好些人的信心。然而， 神坚固的根基立住了。上面有这印记说：“主认识谁是他的人。”又说：“凡称呼主名的人总要离开不义。”耶卅一3古时（注：或作“从远方”）耶和华向以色列（注：原文作“我”）显现说：“我以永远的爱爱你，因此我以慈爱吸引你。
3 来十10我们凭这旨意，靠耶稣基督只一次献上他的身体，就得以成圣。14因为他一次献祭，便叫那得以成圣的人永远完全。 十三20-21但愿赐平安的 神，就是那凭永约之血使群羊的大牧人──我主耶稣从死里复活的 神，在各样善事上成全你们，叫你们遵行他的旨意；又藉着耶稣基督在你们心里行他所喜悦的事。愿荣耀归给他，直到永永远远。阿们！九12-15 并且不用山羊和牛犊的血，乃用自己的血，只一次进入圣所，成了永远赎罪的事。若山羊和公牛的血，并母牛犊的灰洒在不洁的人身上，尚且叫人成圣，身体洁净。何况基督借着永远的灵，将自己无瑕无疵献给神，他的血岂不更能洗净你们的心。（原文作良心）除去你们的死行，使你们事奉那永生神吗？为此他作了新约的中保。既然受死赎了人在前约之时所犯的罪过，便叫蒙召之人得着所应许永远的产业。七25凡靠着他进到 神面前的人，他都能拯救到底，因为他是长远活着，替他们祈求。罗八33-39谁能控告神所拣选的人呢？有神称他们为义了。（或作是称他们为义的神吗？）谁能定他们的罪呢？有基督耶稣已经死了，而且从死里复活，现今在神的右边，也替我们祈求。（有基督云云或作是已经死了而且从死里复活现今在神的右边也替我们祈求的基督耶稣吗）。谁能使我们与基督的爱隔绝呢？难道是患难吗？是困苦吗？是逼迫吗？是饥饿吗？是赤身露体吗？是危险吗？是刀剑吗？如经上所记，我们为你的缘故，终日被杀。人看我们如将宰的羊，然而靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上，已经得胜有余了。因为我深信无论是死，是生，是天使，是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事，是将来的事，是高处的，是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与神的爱隔绝。这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。约十七11从今以后，我不在世上，他们却在世上；我往你那里去。圣父啊，求你因你所赐给我的名保守他们，叫他们合而为一，像我们一样。24父啊，我在哪里，愿你所赐给我的人也同我在那里，叫他们看见你所赐给我的荣耀。因为创立世界以前，你已经爱我了。路廿二32但我已经为你祈求，叫你不至于失了信心。你回头以后，要坚固你的弟兄。”
4 约十四16-17 我要求父，父就另外赐给你们一位保惠师（或作训慰师下同），叫他永远与你们同在。就是真理的圣灵，乃世人不能接受的。因为不见他，也不认识他。你们却认识他。因他常与你们同在，也要在你们里面。约壹二27你们从主所受的恩膏常存在你们心里，并不用人教训你们，自有主的恩膏在凡事上教训你们。这恩膏是真的，不是假的，你们要按这恩膏的教训住在主里面。三9凡从 神生的，就不犯罪，因 神的道（注：原文作“种”）存在他心里；他也不能犯罪，因为他是由 神生的。
5 耶卅二40又要与他们立永远的约，必随着他们施恩，并不离开他们，且使他们有敬畏我的心，不离开我。 来八10-12主又说，那些日子以后，我与以色列家所立的约乃是这样。我要将我的律法放在他们里面，写在他们心上，我要作他们的神，他们要作我的子民。他们不用各人教导自己的乡邻，和自己的弟兄，说，你该认识主。因为他们从最小的到至大的，都必认识我。我要宽恕他们的不义，不再记念他们的罪愆。
6 约十28我又赐给他们永生，他们永不灭亡，谁也不能从我手里把他们夺去。 帖后三3但主是信实的，要坚固你们，保护你们脱离那恶者（注：或作“脱离凶恶”）。约壹二19他们从我们中间出去，却不是属我们的；若是属我们的，就必仍旧与我们同在；他们出去显明都不是属我们的。帖前五23-24愿赐平安的 神亲自使你们全然成圣。又愿你们的灵与魂与身子得蒙保守，在我主耶稣基督降临的时候，完全无可指摘。那召你们的本是信实的，他必成就这事。
7 太廿六70彼得在众人面前却不承认，说：“我不知道你说的是什么。”72彼得又不承认，并且起誓说：“我不认得那个人！” 74彼得就发咒起誓地说：“我不认得那个人！”立时，鸡就叫了。
8 诗五十一（略），五十一14神啊，你是拯救我的 神，求你救我脱离流人血的罪，我的舌头就高声歌唱你的公义。 撒下十二9你为什么藐视耶和华的命令，行他眼中看为恶的事呢？你借亚扪人的刀杀害赫人乌利亚，又娶了他的妻为妻。13大卫对拿单说：“我得罪耶和华了！”拿单说：“耶和华已经除掉你的罪，你必不至于死。
9 赛六十四5你迎接那欢喜行义、记念你道的人；你曾发怒，我们仍犯罪。这景况已久，我们还能得救吗？7并且无人求告你的名，无人奋力抓住你；原来你掩面不顾我们，使我们因罪孽消化。9耶和华啊，求你不要大发震怒，也不要永远记念罪孽。求你垂顾我们，我们都是你的百姓。撒下十一27哀哭的日子过了，大卫差人将她接到宫里，她就作了大卫的妻，给大卫生了一个儿子。但大卫所行的这事，耶和华甚不喜悦。
10 弗四30不要叫 神的圣灵担忧；你们原是受了他的印记，等候得赎的日子来到。
11 诗五十一8求你使我得听欢喜快乐的声音，使你所压伤的骨头可以踊跃。 10神啊，求你为我造清洁的心，使我里面重新有正直（注：“正直”或作“坚定”）的灵。 12求你使我仍得救恩之乐，赐我乐意的灵扶持我；启二4然而，有一件事我要责备你，就是你把起初的爱心离弃了。歌五2-4 我身睡卧，我心却醒。这是我良人的声音。他敲门，说，我的妹子，我的佳偶，我的鸽子，我的完全人，求你给我开门，因我的头满了露水，我的头发被夜露滴湿。我回答说，我脱了衣裳，怎能再穿上呢？我洗了脚，怎能再玷污呢？我的良人从门孔里伸进手来，我便因他动了心。6 我给我的良人开了门。我的良人却已转身走了。他说话的时候，我神不守舍。我寻找他，竟寻不见。我呼叫他，他却不回答。
12 赛六十三17耶和华啊，你为何使我们走差离开你的道，使我们心里刚硬不敬畏你呢？求你为你仆人、为你产业支派的缘故转回来。可六52这是因为他们不明白那分饼的事，心里还是愚顽。十六14后来，十一个门徒坐席的时候，耶稣向他们显现，责备他们不信，心里刚硬，因为他们不信那些在他复活以后看见他的人。诗九十五8你们不可硬着心，像当日在米利巴，就是在旷野的玛撒。
13 诗卅二3-4 我闭口不认罪的时候，因终日唉哼，而骨头枯干。黑夜白日，你的手在我身上沉重。我的精液耗尽，如同夏天的干旱。 五十一8 求你使我得听欢喜快乐的声音，使你所压伤的骨头，可以踊跃。
14 撒下十二14只是你行这事，叫耶和华的仇敌大得亵渎的机会，故此，你所得的孩子必定要死。”
15 诗八十九31-32背弃我的律例，不遵守我的诫命。我就要用杖责罚他们的过犯，用鞭责罚他们的罪孽。 林前十一32 我们受审的时候，乃是被主惩治。免得我们和世人一同定罪。
[1] PHI 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. 2PE 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. JOH 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 1JO 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1PE 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
[2] 2TI 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. JER 31:3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
[3] HEB 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. HEB 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. ROM 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. JOH 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. LUK 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. HEB 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
[4] JOH 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 1JO 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 1JO 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
[5] JER 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
[6] JOH 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 2TH 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 1JO 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
[7] MAT 26:70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
[8] PSA 51 (the title) To the chief muscian, A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
[9] ISA 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 2SA 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
[10] EPH 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
[11] PSA 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. REV 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. SON 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
[12] ISA 63:17 O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. MAR 6:52 For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
[13] PSA 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
[14] 2SA 12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
[15] PSA 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 1CO 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
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威斯敏斯特信条证明经文 （1-8章 9-16章 ） 威斯敏斯特信条王志勇牧师译 威斯敏斯特信条吕沛渊牧师译