| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 558 pągines
...exbecause he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass, upon such conditions.* III. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels* are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death." IV. These... | |
| John Burnett Pratt - 1840 - 312 pągines
...Faith," and " Larger and Shorter Catechisms." These form a SYSTEM founded on the ETERNAL DECREE of God. " God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and...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,... | |
| Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pągines
...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... | |
| R. C. Sproul - 1994 - 220 pągines
...guests. I began the class by reading the opening lines from Chapter III of the Westminster Confession: God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass. I stopped reading at that point. I asked, "Is there anyone in this room who does not believe the words... | |
| Philip Walker Butin - 1995 - 247 pągines
...immediately takes as its fundamental paradigm for the divine- human relationship the assumption that "by the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death."7 The economic-trinitarian... | |
| Tyron Inbody - 1997 - 250 pągines
...Chapter III, "Of God's Eternal Decrees," in the Westminster Confession of Faith, says in article 1, "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass" (italics added). The confession follows out the logic of this affirmation of faith: By the decree of... | |
| Thomas P. Flint - 1998 - 284 pągines
...Grove, 111.: InterVarsiry Press, 1994), P- 42- Note as well this earlier passage from the Confession: "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...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,... | |
| Scott R. Burson, Jerry L. Walls - 2009 - 312 pągines
...the thought-world, which in turn becomes a true first cause of an external result.2 FRANCIS SCHAEFFER God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy...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;... | |
| Gary J. Dorrien - 1998 - 280 pągines
...rooted in the assumption of total divine control," he explained. The Westminster Confession asserts that "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass."152 Pinnock recounted that it was out of this theological presupposition of total divine control... | |
| Kenneth Talbot, Gary Crampton - 1999 - 150 pągines
...exists, and nothing exists which is not foreordained by Him. The Westminster Confession of Faith states: God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass....4 If anything were to exist independently of God, it would, of necessity, be coequal with God.... | |
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