A Common Sense View of the Westminster ConfessionB.R. Baumgardt & Company, 1894 - 20 pages |
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atonement biblical Chapter character or worth Christ died COMMON SENSE VIEW Confession teaches creed damn declared or predestinated decree of election decree of God dishonor and wrath doctrine dying in infancy Elect Infants election is correct election to everlasting eternal everlasting death foresight of faith free grace Garden of Eden glorious grace glorious justice God's idea heathen Hodge human idea of election ideas of justice incapable infancy are regenerated infants dying JOHN SHIRLEY WARD justice and right logical conclusions lost man's free agency man's natural ideas moral acts moral character never heard non-elect offered ordained to everlasting outwardly called plan of salvation pleaseth praise Presbyterian Church regenerated and saved rendered by Christ reprobation rest of mankind revision Revisionist satisfaction rendered saved by Christ saved without regard says scriptural Section selected certain persons simply to show sins sover tion UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unto everlasting Westminster Assembly Westminster Confession worketh
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Page 6 - 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.
Page 6 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Page 3 - 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 liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 9 - Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth. So also are all other elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word.
Page 9 - ... lost are spoken of as being ordained or judicially condemned to death. Yet it makes the dogmatic assertion that ' God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by the rest of mankind, and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 12 - Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of grace: wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved; and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life, his Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.
Page 9 - Have I any pleasure at all, that the wicked should die ? — I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth."* The declaration here is not limited to those who will forsake their iniquities and live.