 | 1890 - 830 pages
...PRESBYTERIAN CONFESSION OF FAITH. CHAPTER III. OF GOD'S ETERNAL DECREE. God from all eternity did bv the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely...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... | |
 | Granville Moody - 1890 - 502 pages
...so as thereby neither is God the author 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. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet he hath not... | |
 | John McClintock - 1891 - 944 pages
...Eternal £>ecrte as follows : , U0f God's Eternal /Vrw.— God frcm all eternity did, bv the most wi.-.e and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably...liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but nit h or established. Although God knows whatsoever may ur mn come to pass upon all sur>posed conditions,... | |
 | Western Australia - 1902 - 726 pages
...this doctrine " neither is God the author 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," and further, that the said doctrine is held in connection and harmony with the truth that God is not... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1894 - 928 pages
...It assigns to it more space than to the holy Trinity, or the Person of Christ, or the atonement. "1. God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...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... | |
 | John McClintock - 1894 - 958 pages
...wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever conies tn pass ; 3*et so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor...second causes taken away, but rather established. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath he not... | |
 | John Shirley Ward - 1894 - 32 pages
...then , to explain away the fatalistic position into which God's ordination has placed man, they add, " Nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established." Out of this theory is developed the idea which lies at the basis oí the Westminster Confession, that... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - 1895 - 480 pages
...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 effect independently of faith and a holy life. THIRD ERROR.... | |
 | John Kinross (D.D.) - 1897 - 364 pages
...be an awful, irreprehensible, and righteous judge and avenger. WEST. CONFESSION, Chap. iii. sec. 1. "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...second causes taken away, but rather established. SEC. 2. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath... | |
 | Washington Gladden - 1899 - 394 pages
...so as thereby neither is God the author 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." l If this seems like a contradiction in terms, we must not too sharply censure it, for doubtless the... | |
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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... 
