What was the Puritan's view of Scripture and of grace?

Joel Beeke explains in this video that everything that comes to us is by God's grace. The Reformers and the Puritans loved Scripture. They meditated on it. They were guided by it. They understood that everything was a gift from God. They were saved by grace. 

Living by grace alone, by faith alone, and by Scripture alone fosters a genuine piety in the life of the believer. It is distinct from the Roman Catholic idea that piety is based on one's owns works. Rather, true piety flows out of a gratitude for God's grace and the gift of salvation. 

Hebrews 12:28 (NKJV) – “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.” 



And everything that comes to us is God's grace. We live by grace, for grace, and so grace and scripture are wedded together in the Reformation. And this is very important to understand. So the Reformers and their successors, the Puritans, they sang scripture, they loved scripture, they memorized scripture, they used scripture, they were guided by scripture, they meditated on scripture. But all of this was done in the context of grace.

They saw it all as a gift of God. They're saved by grace, preventing grace, accompanying grace, following grace. Grace restores us when we backslide. Grace saves us. Grace keeps us safe.

It's all grace through the lens of scripture. And when we live by grace alone, from scripture alone, through faith alone, The net result is that in the soul, in the life of the believer, is fostered a genuine piety. And that is different from the Roman Catholic piety, which is emerging of my credit because of my work, so syncretistic kind of piety. This piety just flows out of an overwhelming gratitude to God for being my whole salvation. That is very important as well today.

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