Predestination Calmly Considered from Principles of Reason: In Consistency with the Nature of Things and the Scriptures of Truth : with Answers to Seven Queries on Predestination

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William Peirce, 1835 - 178 pages

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Page 158 - Remember the former things of old : for I am God, and there is none else ; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, " My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure...
Page 159 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Page 164 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 92 - DOETH ACCORDING TO HIS WILL in the Armies of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth, and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou ?'— Dan.
Page 158 - I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations.
Page 182 - THE Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying, " Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass ; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand...
Page 158 - My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 138 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 160 - Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.
Page 179 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

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