 | John Dick - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 564 pages
...cease to alarm them, and their minds would be disposed to assent to the doctrine of our Church, that " God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass."* LECTURE XXXV. ON PREDESTINATION. Predestination defined — Systems of the Supralapsarians, Sublapsarians,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 558 pages
...wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass ; m yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin ; « nor is violence offered to the 1 John Xv. 26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...and so that " thereby God is not the author of sin, nor is violence done to the will of the creature, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established." The providence of God extendeth itself lo (he " sins of angels and men, and that not by a bare permission,... | |
 | Religion - 1839 - 540 pages
...and so that " thereby God is not the author of sin, nor is violence done to the will of the creature, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established." The providence of God extendeth itself to die " sins of angels and men, and that not by a bare permission,... | |
 | Theology - 1839 - 536 pages
...and so that " thereby God is not the author of sin, nor is violence done to the will of the creature, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established." The providence of God extendeth itself to the " sins of angels and men, and that not by a bare permission,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1835 - 380 pages
...believer, entered into his plan from all eternity ; "yet so, (as our Confession of Faith declares,) as that thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence...second causes taken away, but rather established." In short, the sum of our belief in reference to this great economy, may be expressed in one sentence... | |
 | John Burnett Pratt - 1840 - 312 pages
...expounded, that one part of it becomes repugnant to the other." Quotations from the "Confession of Faith." " God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto... | |
 | Richard Hastings Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...church, as appears from the third chapter of that Confession,! entitled " Of God's eternal decree." " 1st God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain what|| Confession of Faith, &c. &c. of Public Authority in the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh, printed... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 460 pages
...to offer is in perfect accordance with that creed. The section referred to, stands as follows — " God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...second causes taken away, but rather established." The first important guard or restriction of the truth here exhibited is, that we are. never to consider... | |
 | Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1841 - 88 pages
...all our communion with God, and comfortable dependence upon him. CHAP. Ill. Of God's Eternal Decree. 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... | |
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