 | Wilbur Fisk - 1835 - 330 էջ
...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...of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain," &c. Now it would be a gross insult to common sense to say of such language as this, in the mouth of... | |
 | 1836 - 508 էջ
...Confession, it may be proper to notice some of its prominent features. 1. Of God's Eternal Decrees.• " God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel...God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions ; yet hath he not decreed any thing, because he foresaw it as future, or that... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1836 - 254 էջ
...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 counsel...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... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1836 - 322 էջ
...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 counsel...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass.' According to these quotations from the orthodox creeds, the eternal destiny of some angels and of some... | |
 | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1836 - 552 էջ
...according to the counsel of his own will, he has chosen some to salvation; " yet so as thereby neither is violence offered to the will of the creatures,...second causes taken away, but rather established;" nor does this gracious purpose ever take eflect independently of faith and a holy life. THIRD ERROR.... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1836 - 250 էջ
...influence of his glorious character, law, gospel, and government. Nor in its existence in fallen man, ' is violence offered to the will of the creatures,...second causes taken away, but rather established.' Of course I reject all theories of the origin or continuance of evil, which make God the author of... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 էջ
...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... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1837 - 508 էջ
...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 whatsoever... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk - 1837 - 280 էջ
...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... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk - 1837 - 288 էջ
...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... | |
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GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely 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, nor is the... 
