| Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1841 - 100 pages
...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 counsel...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... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 460 pages
...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 counsel...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... | |
| 1841 - 508 pages
...one. The first proposition is this ; " God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy council of His own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever...second causes taken away, but rather established." That God has the power to fix the destiny of all created things, is not to be denied. But viewing His... | |
| William Alexander - 1841 - 638 pages
...CHAP. in. OF GODS ETERNALL DECREE. 1. GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy -councill of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever...second causes taken away, but rather established. 2 ALTHOUGH God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath he not... | |
| 1858 - 690 pages
...words arp made to conceal our meaning." The Confession of Faith of the Church of Scotland says : " God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatever comes to pass. Yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered... | |
| Jean François Salvard, Peter Hall - 1842 - 710 pages
...Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. Chapter 3. Of God's Eternal Decree. (1.) God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel...second causes taken away, but rather established. (2.) Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath he... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1842 - 308 pages
...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,—... | |
| James Napier Bailey - 1842 - 270 pages
...II. p. 21. -l- In the " Westminster Confession of Faith, "we find the following passage : — " God, from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, frcely and unchangeably ordain every thing that comes to pass ; yet so, as thereby ncither is God the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 672 pages
...Vol. 200. — No. 400. 2 T Counsel of His own Will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever conies to pass, yet so as thereby neither is God the Author...God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed Conditions, yet hath He not decreed anything because He foresaw it as future, or as that... | |
| John H. Leith - 1982 - 760 pages
...Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. CHAPTER III. Of God's Eternal Decree. I. God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel...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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