05 - Some Testimonies Concerning Duty Faith

What have other Calvinists said about duty faith?

Arthur Pink:
It is the binding obligation of those claiming to be called of God to preach, to exhort unbelievers and believers, realising that it rests entirely in the hands of a sovereign God to make [it] effectual... [The preacher] has no right whatever to pick and choose: his business is to ‘declare all the counsel of God’, and as Luke 24:47 and Acts 20:21 show, part of that ‘counsel’ is to call upon men to repent. If the ungodly are not pointedly and authoritatively called unto repentance of their sins and belief of the gospel, and if on the contrary they are only told that they are unable so to do, then they are encouraged in their impenitency and unbelief. If the gospel [preacher] gives such a disproportionate presentation of the truth that the unconverted are made to feel they are more to be pitied than blamed for their spiritual impotency, then their responsibility is undermined and their conscience is lulled to sleep. To the objection that to call upon the unregenerate to turn from the world and come to Christ is to inculcate creature-ability and to feed self-righteousness, we ask, Were Christ and his Spirit-taught apostles ignorant of this danger? Was it left for the 18th and 19th centuries to make such a discovery? Were men so mightily used of God as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and C.H.Spurgeon wrong, when, in promiscuously exhorting all their hearers to flee from the wrath to come, they followed the example of John the Baptist and the Son of God?