 | John Henry Hobart - 1844 - 288 pages
...sends some to heaven, and others to hell. Take the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith : " By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...life, and others foreordained to everlasting death;"* and this predestination, having no respect to their use or abuse of the means of grace, is absolute... | |
 | 1864 - 940 pages
...Confession, and point to its scriptural proofs on these subjects. Chap. III. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. " 3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death. " 4. These angels and men, thus predestinated and fore-ordained, are particularly and unchangeably... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1844 - 752 pages
...thing because he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions. 3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. 4. These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 672 pages
...anything because He foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions. ' By the Decree of God, for the Manifestation of his...life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death.' (Westminster Confession, Chap, iii, Clauses i-iii.) Certain phrases of the Declaratory Act are said... | |
 | 1907 - 550 pages
...Association—our reviewers. I read from the Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter iii, section 3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. Sec. 4.—These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably... | |
 | Hyobom Pak - 1974 - 136 pages
...himself thereunto. 53 JS Mill, p. 8. 54 Tawney, p. xviii. Chapter III (of God's Eternal Decree), No. 3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His...are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foredained to everlasting death.38 Few can hardly deny the irrational and punitive nature of the Christian... | |
 | John Wesley - 1964 - 532 pages
...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...life and others foreordained to everlasting death. These angels and men tbus predestinated and fore-ordained are particularly and unchangeably designed,... | |
 | A. H. Saxon - 1989 - 512 pages
...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...life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. . . . These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably... | |
 | Shirley C. Guthrie - 1994 - 452 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| |
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. 
