 | 1840 - 694 էջ
...or, as Calvin justly calls it, " the horrible decree?" The Presbyterian confession informs us that "by the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...others fore-ordained to everlasting death. These angels andj men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1840 - 414 էջ
...respectu ad mala merita. Utrum autem in electione sanctorum ad gloriam Deus suo usus fuerit ar(1) " By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...and others fore-ordained to everlasting death. These angele and men, thus predestinated and fore-ordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ;... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 էջ
...other appointment, word and work of God, the ultimate object."J Thus also the Westminster Confession, " by the decree of God for the manifestation of His...life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death." And again, "the elect are chosen without any thought of their faith or good works, all to the praise... | |
 | John Wesley - 1964 - 532 էջ
...are these words (chap. 5): 4 God from all eternity did unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...foreordained to everlasting death. These angels and men tbus predestinated and fore-ordained are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so... | |
 | John H. Leith - 1982 - 760 էջ
...thing because 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...life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. IV. These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed;... | |
 | A. H. Saxon - 1989 - 512 էջ
...spend eternity in heaven, and those just as surely doomed to "dishonour and wrath" in the other place. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.1 As if these bracing Calvinistic tenets were not enough, New England, at the time of Barnum's... | |
 | Shirley C. Guthrie - 1994 - 452 էջ
...only one of several possible views in the Reformed tradition. According to the Westminster Confession, "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestined to everlasting life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death" (3.3). There is thus... | |
 | Philip Walker Butin - 1995 - 247 էջ
...immediately takes as its fundamental paradigm for the divine- human relationship the assumption that "by the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death."7 The economic-trinitarian character of the external divine operation is not wholly neglected... | |
 | Milton J. Coalter, Virgil Cruz - 1995 - 212 էջ
...and angels who are predestinated to everlasting life and the number foreordained to everlasting death "is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished."45 The word "gospel" resounds throughout the new chapter, but it lacks the note of news... | |
 | Tyron Inbody - 1997 - 250 էջ
...comes to pass" (italics added). The confession follows out the logic of this affirmation of faith: By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death. These angels and... | |
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These angels and men thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished. 
