 | Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - Religion - 2006 - 448 pages
...Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. CHAPTER III. Of God's Eternal Decree. I. God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...second causes taken away, but rather established. II. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath he... | |
 | Daniel L. Akin - Baptists - 2007 - 950 pages
...Corporate View of Election (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990), 195. 54 The Westminster Confession states, "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass." The Westminster Assembly, "The Westminster Confession of Faith, 1610, 3.1" in Creeds and Confessions... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 492 pages
...upon Calvinism. Tim Westminster Confession (Chap. III.) is still more explicit: 'God from all eteraity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will...unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass ; yet so us thereby neither it God the aathor of sin ; nor is riulence offered to An will of the creatures.... | |
 | Arthur W. Pink - Providence and government of God - 2007 - 168 pages
...reprobated some from before the foundation of the world. In the Westminster Confession it is said, "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably foreordain whatsoever comes to pass." The late Mr. FW Grant-a most careful and cautious student and... | |
 | David Bruce Hegeman - Religion - 2007 - 128 pages
...because God has decreed it so! The Westminster divines put it this way: "God from all eternity did . . . freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass, yet so as thereby neither ... is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established" (WCF chap. 3.1; cf.... | |
 | Shirley C. Guthrie Jr. - Religion - 2008 - 155 pages
...God's ordaining it" (quoting Augustine, I.16.8). Or in the words of the Westminster Confession (III.1), "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass." So: "If some mothers have full and abundant breasts, but others are almost dry, it is because God wills... | |
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GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the... 
