 | Alan Cromartie - 2006 - 18 pages
...proto-Arminian anxieties. Earlier English Protestants had taken it for granted, as the 39 Articles put it, that 'godly consideration of predestination, and our election...pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons'. Precisely because the Almighty had predestined his elect, his love for them could be assumed to be... | |
 | Carol Weisbrod - 2006 - 172 pages
...can also quote the Thirty-Nine Articles5' on predestination and election. Consideration of election is full of "sweet pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons" and those who "feel in themselves the working of the spirit of Christ."58 Then there are others, who are... | |
 | Fleming Rutledge - 2007 - 422 pages
...whom he hath chosen in Christ . . . and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation. . . . . . . the godly consideration of Predestination, and our...is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort. . . . When I read that as a teenager, it sounded pretty good to me. What I fastened on, without entirely... | |
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As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and... 
