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administered only in the Church and serve, not to originate the new life, but to strengthen it? Is
the Word of God exclusively used as a means of grace? How do the law and the gospel differ as
different aspects of the Word?
LITERATURE:
Bavinck, Geref. Dogm. IV, pp. 483-505; Hodge, Syst. Theol. III, pp. 466-485; Shedd,
Dogm. Theol. II, pp. 561-563; Vos, Geref. Dogm. V. De Genademiddelen, pp. 1-11; McPherson,
Chr. Dogm., pp. 422-427; Dick, Lect. on Theology, pp. 447-458; Pieper, Christl. Dogm. III, pp.
121-296; Valentine, Chr. Theol. II, pp. 282-292; Mueller, Chr. Dogm., pp. 441-484; Raymond,
Syst. Theol. III, pp. 243-255; Drummond, Studies in Chr. Doct., pp. 399-403.