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This eBook is a collection of essays which discuss the ongoing battle to preserve the integrity of the gospel after the Protestant Reformation.
这本电子书（eBook）是一系列文章的集合，讨论了新教宗教改革（Protestant Reformation）之后为维护福音（gospel）完整性而进行的持续战斗。
From that time until now there have been many movements in the visible church, and continue today, which have attempted to water down the grace of God in Jesus Christ – a diluted view of grace.
从那时直到现在，在有形教会（visible church）中已经出现并持续存在着许多运动，它们试图冲淡（water down）耶稣基督里上帝的恩典——一种被稀释的恩典观。
Some of these teachings are subtle and some are not so subtle but from the beginning, and from the time of Jesus and Paul, fallen human beings have continued to被诱入将不一致性带入唯独基督的福音中。
这些教导有些是微妙的，有些则不太微妙，但从一开始，从耶稣和保罗的时代开始，堕落的人类就持续被引诱（lured into）将不一致性（inconsistencies）带入唯独基督的福音中。
It is a battle we all need to be aware of and take precautions to avoid from the pulpit and from our pens.
这是一场我们所有人都需要意识到的战斗，并要采取预防措施，避免它从讲坛（pulpit）和我们的笔（pens）下出现。
We do so by exposing what is false, but more importantly, by loudly and clearly proclaiming the genuine article that we would be more God-honoring by making Him known as He has made Himself known in the Scripture.
我们这样做是通过揭露虚假的事物，但更重要的是，通过大声而清晰地宣告真品（genuine article），这样我们就能以祂在圣经中启示自己的方式来使人认识祂，从而更加荣耀上帝。
It seems that the whole progress of biblical revelation and church history through the ages has been forged out of the fire of controversy and the often angry struggles over truth.
看来，历代以来圣经启示和教会历史的整个进程，都是在争议（controversy）的烈火和往往激烈的真理斗争中锻造出来的。
It is these great debates that have preserved the church from error and when the church grows lazy and fat, unwilling to be corrected, the world loses its only hope of salvation.
正是这些伟大的辩论保守了教会免于错误，而当教会变得懒惰和肥沃（fat），不愿被纠正时，世界就失去了它唯一的救恩希望。
It is never easy to correct, nor is it pleasant, but we are to “preach the truth in love.”
纠正从来都不是容易的，也不令人愉快，但我们理当“用爱心说诚实话”（preach the truth in love）。
However, neither are we to pretend that our laziness, ignorance and apathy in defending the truth are really attempts to preserve the bond of unity.
然而，我们也不应假装我们在捍卫真理方面的懒惰、无知和冷漠（apathy）实际上是为了维护合一的联结（bond of unity）。
With Luther, we must say, “Unity wherever possible, but truth at all costs.”
我们必须和路德（Luther）一样说：“尽可能合一，但要不惜一切代价捍卫真理。”
Our attempt is to resurrect polemical debate as a means to the end of waking up a decadent and grossly unfaithful church and helping it make its way forward toward a second Reformation.
我们的尝试是复兴（resurrect）论战式辩论（polemical debate），以此作为唤醒一个堕落（decadent）且极度不忠实的教会，并帮助它朝着第二次宗教改革（second Reformation）前进的手段和目的。
And at a time when most Americans who claim to be Bible-believing Christians cannot, according to major studies, even articulate the basic message of the Gospel, what could be more relevant?
在一个根据主要研究，大多数自称相信圣经的美国基督徒甚至无法清楚表达福音基本信息的时代，还有什么比这更具相关性呢？
Nevertheless, sometimes there are casualties of “friendly fire.” – Michael Horton
然而，有时会有“友军火力”（friendly fire）的伤亡。——迈克尔·霍顿（Michael Horton）
“If grace depends on our cooperation then it is no longer grace.” -Martin Luther
“如果恩典依赖于我们的合作，那么它就不再是恩典了。”——马丁·路德
At the heart of the Reformation was one of the most fundamental questions of the Christian faith: How can I be saved from eternal damnation?
宗教改革的核心是基督教信仰中最基本的问题之一：我如何才能从永恒的定罪（eternal damnation）中得救？
The answer of all the leading Reformers was one and the same: only by God’s free and sovereign grace.
所有主要改教家（Reformers）的答案都是同一个：唯独靠着上帝白白和主权的恩典。
As J. I. Packer and O. Raymond Johnston have pointed out, 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.
正如J. I. 巴刻（J. I. Packer）和奥·雷蒙德·约翰斯顿（O. Raymond Johnston）所指出的，认为唯独因信称义的教义——这个宗教改革的风暴中心——是马丁·路德、乌尔里希·慈运理（Ulrich Zwingli）、马丁·布塞尔（Martin Bucer）和约翰·加尔文等神学家心目中的关键问题，这是错误的。
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 A. G. Haykin
这个教义对改教家很重要，因为它有助于表达和保障他们对另一个更重要问题的回答，即罪人在他们的罪中是否完全无助，以及上帝是否应被视为通过白白、无条件、不可抗拒（invincible）的恩典来拯救他们，不仅在他们相信时因基督的缘故称他们为义，而且还藉着祂使人活泼的（quickening）圣灵使他们从罪的死亡中复活，以便将他们带到信心面前。——迈克尔·A. G. 海金（Michael A. G. Haykin）
“What the Arminian wants to do is to arouse man’s activity: what we want to do is to kill it once for all—to show him that he is lost and ruined, and that his activities are not now at all equal to the work of conversion; that he must look upward.
“亚米念派想要做的是唤醒人的活动：我们想要做的是一劳永逸地扼杀它——向祂表明祂是迷失和败坏的（ruined），并且祂的活动现在根本不足以进行归正（conversion）的工作；祂必须向上仰望。
They seek to make the man stand up: we seek to bring him down, and make him feel that there he lies in the hand of God, and that his business is to submit himself to God, and cry aloud, ‘Lord, save, or we perish.’
他们试图让人站起来：我们试图将祂击倒，使祂感受到祂躺在那里，在上帝的手中，祂的本分是顺服（submit）上帝，并大声呼喊，‘主啊，救我们，不然我们就灭亡了。’
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
我们认为，人从未如此接近恩典，就像祂开始感觉自己什么都做不了的时候一样。
When he says, ‘I can pray, I can believe, I can do this, and I can do the other,’ marks of self-sufficiency and arrogance are on his brow.” – C. H. Spurgeon
当祂说，‘我能祷告，我能相信，我能做这个，我能做那个’时，自足（self-sufficiency）和傲慢的标记就在祂的额头上了。”——C. H. 司布真（C. H. Spurgeon）
TABLE OF CONTENTS
目录
Foreword
前言
Five Arminians Articles of Remonstrance – 1610
亚米念派五项抗辩条文（Articles of Remonstrance） – 1610年
Canons of Dort – 1619
多特会议法规（Canons of Dort） – 1619年
Prevenient Grace and Semi-Pelagianism by Scott Christensen
斯科特·克里斯滕森（Scott Christensen）论先行恩典（Prevenient Grace）与半伯拉纠主义（Semi-Pelagianism）
A Comparison of Systems: Pelagianism, Semipelagianism, and Augustinianism by A. A. Hodge
A. A. 霍奇（A. A. Hodge）论体系比较：伯拉纠主义、半伯拉纠主义和奥古斯丁主义
Captive Hearts, Captive Church by R. C. Sproul
R. C. 史普罗（R. C. Sproul）论被掳的心、被掳的教会
Pelagianism: The Religion of Natural Man by Michael Horton
迈克尔·霍顿论伯拉纠主义：自然人的宗教
How Did We Come to Faith in Christ? by R. Scott Clark
R. 斯科特·克拉克（R. Scott Clark）论我们是如何获得对基督的信心？
Determinism and Responsibility by Gordon Clark
戈登·克拉克（Gordon Clark）论决定论（Determinism）与责任（Responsibility）
The Controversy Between Whitefield and Wesley – 1740 by Iain Murray
伊恩·默里（Iain Murray）论怀特菲尔德（Whitefield）与卫斯理（Wesley）之间的争议 – 1740年
Free Grace, a Sermon by John Wesley
约翰·卫斯理的讲道：自由恩典
Whitefield’s Response to Wesley’s Sermon on Free Grace
怀特菲尔德对卫斯理关于自由恩典讲道的回复
Synergism: The Fatal Leaven by Arthur C. Custance
亚瑟·C. 卡斯坦斯论协同主义（Synergism）：致命的酵
Arminian Theory of Redemption by R. L. Dabney
R. L. 达布尼（R. L. Dabney）论亚米念派的救赎理论（Theory of Redemption）
Who Was Arminius? by Robert Godfrey
罗伯特·戈弗雷（Robert Godfrey）论亚米念是谁？
Arminianism Exposed by Rev. Mark Herzer
马克·赫尔泽牧师（Rev. Mark Herzer）论亚米念主义被揭露
Evangelical Arminians: Option or Oxymoron?
福音派（Evangelical）亚米念派：一种选择还是一种矛盾修辞（Oxymoron）？
Arminianism and the Atonement by John Murray
约翰·默里（John Murray）论亚米念主义与赎罪（Atonement）
Arminianism in the Pilgrimage of the Soul by John Murray
约翰·默里论灵魂朝圣（Pilgrimage of the Soul）中的亚米念主义
The Reformed Faith and Arminianism by John Murray
约翰·默里论归正信仰（Reformed Faith）与亚米念主义
An Antidote Against Arminianism by Christipher Ness
克里斯托弗·内斯（Christipher Ness）论对抗亚米念主义的解毒剂（Antidote）
Packer’s Introduction to Owen’s Death of Death
巴刻（Packer）对欧文（Owen）《死亡之死》（Death of Death）的导言
Fire & Water by Dr. Kim Riddlebarger
金·里德尔巴格博士（Dr. Kim Riddlebarger）论火与水
God’s Foreknowledge – Act or Attribute? by William Sasser
威廉·萨瑟（William Sasser）论上帝的预知（Foreknowledge）——是行动还是属性（Attribute）？
Arminianism: The Road to Rome by Augustus Toplady
奥古斯都·托普雷迪（Augustus Toplady）论亚米念主义：通往罗马之路
Does the Bible Teach “Prevenient Grace” in the Wesleyan/Arminian Sense? by Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner
托马斯·R. 施赖纳博士（Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner）论圣经是否教导卫斯理/亚米念意义上的“先行恩典”？
On Universal Prevenient Grace by R. C. Sproul
R. C. 史普罗论普遍先行恩典（Universal Prevenient Grace）
Arminianisms by J. I. Packer
J. I. 巴刻论亚米念主义的各种形式
The Pelagian Captivity of the Church by R.C. Sproul
R.C. 史普罗论教会的伯拉纠派俘虏（Captivity）
Man’s Utter inability to Rescue Himself by Thomas Boston
托马斯·波士顿（Thomas Boston）论人完全无力拯救自己
Human Inability by Charles Sprugeon
查尔斯·司布真论人的无能（Inability）
God’s Part and Man’s Part in Salvation by John Reisinger
约翰·赖辛格（John Reisinger）论上帝的部分与人在救恩中的部分
Evangelicalism, False and True by Joseph P. Braswell
约瑟夫·P. 布拉斯韦尔（Joseph P. Braswell）论虚假与真实的福音派主义
Grace Alone: An Evangelical Problem by Dr. Kim Riddlebarger
金·里德尔巴格博士论唯独恩典：一个福音派问题