Scott Clark has had some more to say, and he says it here. As part of his conclusion, he says:
So, let the covenantal moralists, the New Perspectivists, and Federal Visionists (and related folks) have their semi-Pelagian grace and cooperation with grace system. If they want to try to stand, on the basis of grace and cooperation with grace, before the living God who destroyed whole cities by the power of his word, who sent fiery serpents among his people, who demanded such righteousness that the Son of God had to be our substitute, let them try.
You and I will continue to hide behind our righteous Christ. We will continue to muddle through the Christian life dying to sin and living to Christ, sinning and repenting, crying out for grace and mercy, trusting our Savior to guide us safely through the valley of the shadow of death.
This is just an outrage. Look at what Clark is doing — no, not that ninth commandment stuff. I would keep on pointing that out but my arm is tired. Anybody who thinks that I teach a semi-Pelagian “cooperation with grace” scheme ought to be teaching theology in a Reformed seminary on the west coast. Oh . . . oops. And anybody who thinks he has got it right ought to be penalized further by having to take some courses there. Westminster Escondido — where tradition meets the blender.
The thing that is a new outrage is Clark’s clear and undeniable rejection of sola fide. I mean, look at it, there in black and white. “You and I will continue to hide behind our righteous Christ.” Christ is doing one thing, being righteous, and Clark is doing another thing, hiding behind Christ, and the two actions taken together synergistically result in justification. And look at all the works he drags in! I mean, just look at the verbs. Christ is righteous, and Clark tries to contribute to that perfection all his muddling, dying, living, and crying out. There is more popery here than is stitched into the pope’s Easter hat.