 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.  Theologiæ dogmaticæ tractus ... - Page 367by Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Tyron Inbody - 1997 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Scott R. Burson, Jerry L. Walls - 2009 - 312 pages
...uncondiGod's Sovereignly and Human Significance 71 tional election as the Westminster Confession defines it: "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death."18 God predestines... | |
 | Johannes Van Den Berg - 1999 - 318 pages
..."Westminster Confession" of 1647," in which the doctrine of double predestination is unequivocally formulated: "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death" (Ch. Ill, 3). After 1689 it became the uncon15 L. Maimbourg, Histoire... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...judgement save in the mass of perdition? Augustine of Hippo, De dono perseverantiae, 35 (5th century) 12 By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His...are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. The Westminster Confession of Faith, III (1643) 13 Predestination... | |
 | Cynthia M. Campbell - 2000 - 238 pages
...most clearly in the Westminster Confession of Faith, although it appears in other confessions as well: By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death. (BC 6.016) good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ, unto... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 108 pages
...Westminster Confession, which is the best-known and most widely held Presbyterian creed, states this: "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated to everlasting life and others are foreordained to everlasting death." So hyper-Calvinism teaches that... | |
 | Max Weber - 2001 - 354 pages
...strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. Chapter3 tof God's Eternal Decreel, No. 3. By the decree of God. for the manifestation of His...are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. No. 5. Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God before... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...Augustine of Hippo In the wounds of Christ alone is predestination found and understood. Martin Luther By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His...angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and other foreordained to everlasting death. Westminster Confession of Faith Let a man go to the grammar... | |
 | Barry H. Howson - 2001 - 402 pages
...Scriptures and the Godhead, Knollys and others maintain, 18 Westminster Confession of Faith, III.3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory some men and Angels are predestinated, or fore-ordained to Eternal Life, through Jesus Christ, to the praise of his glorious grace; others... | |
 | William Cathcart - 2001 - 502 pages
...anything 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 glory, some men and angels are predestinated or foreordained to eternal life, through Jesus Christ, to the praise of his glorious grace; others... | |
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