...:„'•;;; This reasoning is corroborated by the doctrine of the Confession, in respect to God's decrees. 'God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creature, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.' No...

...Presbyterian Confession, the Larger and the Shorter Catechisms, and the Andover creed all agree that ' God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass.' According to these quotations from the orthodox creeds, the eternal destiny of some angels and of some...

...will of God who gave us the natures with which we are born, it states, "that God,'from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably did ordain whatsoever comes 16 pass. By the decree of God, for the manifestion of his glory, some men...

...articles of the Church of Scotland. " God, from all eternity, did by the most wise and holy council of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever...violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the will or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established. Although God knows...

...atkl our reviewer among them, use these terms. The Assembly's Catechism, as quoted by himself, says, " God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and...holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordajin" &c. Now it would be a gross insult to common sense to say of such language as this, in the...

...and our reviewer among them, use these terms. The Assembly's Catechism, as quoted by himself, says, " God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own toill, freely and unchangeably ordain" &c. Now it would be a gross insult to common sense to say of...

...catechism which that body prepared, but in their articles of faith, on the decrees of God, they say : " God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet to as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures,...

...ruffles, and rings, and carry a high head ? let her also embrace and declare the following doctrines : 'God. from all eternity, did by the most wise and...and unchangeably, ordain whatsoever comes to pass; by the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory. some men and angels were predestinated unto...

...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,...

...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...