 | Susanna Wesley - 1997 - 529 pages
...doctrine to "curious and carnal persons," but it is at bottom a Calvinist, not an Arminian, statement: "Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose...to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation." 63. Genesis 18:25; first clause paraphrased, second phrase quoted exactly. Initial quotation mark in... | |
 | Peter Lake, Michael C. Questier - 2000 - 326 pages
...Articles of 1563 - the official formulary of faith of the English Church. According to article 17, Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose...(before the foundations of the world were laid) he has constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 382 pages
...which were by no means specially puritan ideas. The seventeenth of the Thirty-nine Articles asserts: "Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose...from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen." This article compromises only insofar as it leaves the loophole (which Milton was to exploit) that... | |
 | William Cathcart - 2001 - 502 pages
...faithfulness in accomplishing his decree." The seventeenth article of the Episcopal Church of England says, " Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose...constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to doliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...purpose of God, wherehy 1hefore the Inundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed hy his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom lie hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to hring them hy Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels... | |
 | Greg Dewar - 2002 - 181 pages
...groups, and remains as one of the 39 Articles of Faith of the Church of England: Predestination to Lite is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before...everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Article 17, Articles of Religion, Book of Common Prayer Calvinism appeared to support the idea that... | |
 | Peter Harrison - 2002 - 292 pages
...election, most closely associated with Calvinism in the popular mind, is presented with subtle ambiguity: Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose...to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he has chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation.9 The apparent... | |
 | Joanna Brooks, John Saillant - 2002 - 262 pages
...before God, it hath pleased him to predestine some unto everlasting life. Predestination therefore to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby...were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secrets to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind,... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - 2002 - 296 pages
...everlasting purpose of God whereby, (2) before the foundations of the world were laid, he hath (3) constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation (4) those whom he hath chosen (5) in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - 2004 - 682 pages
...which there is a certain number, known only to God, which can neither be increased nor diminished. 13. Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose...of the world were laid, he hath constantly decreed in his secret counsel to deliver from curse and damnation, those whom he hath chosen in Christ out... | |
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PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind,... 
