 | John H. Leith - 1982 - 760 pages
...Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. CHAPTER III. Of God's Eternal Decree. I. God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established. II. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon... | |
 | Elliott E. Johnson - 1999 - 340 pages
...fruitbearing. This fact was recognized in the balance stated in the Westminster Confession of Faith: God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established." Within this broad theological role of providence, the Father uses... | |
 | Donald K. McKim, David F. Wright - 1992 - 452 pages
...will." When they spoke of God's eternal decree, that is, God's eternal purpose, they declared that "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass." The ease with which the confession speaks of the decree of God* creates a difficulty for contemporary... | |
 | Walter C. Kaiser, Moisés Silva - 1994 - 306 pages
...view of biblical inspiration, however, goes hand in hand with a Reformed understanding of history. The to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author...nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established" (my emphasis). This is hardly the place to provide a philosophical... | |
 | R. C. Sproul - 1994 - 220 pages
...guests. I began the class by reading the opening lines from Chapter III of the Westminster Confession: God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass. I stopped reading at that point. I asked, "Is there anyone in this room who does not believe the words... | |
 | Shirley C. Guthrie - 1994 - 452 pages
...of double predestination is based on an understanding of God's "eternal decrees," according to which "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass" (Westminster Confession, 3.1). World history and the history of every individual person then becomes... | |
 | Tyron Inbody - 1997 - 250 pages
...Chapter III, "Of God's Eternal Decrees," in the Westminster Confession of Faith, says in article 1, "God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy...and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass" (italics added). The confession follows out the logic of this affirmation of faith: By the decree of... | |
 | Thomas P. Flint - 1998 - 284 pages
...Grove, 111.: InterVarsiry Press, 1994), P- 42- Note as well this earlier passage from the Confession: "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established" (ibid., p. 87). K Vatican Council I, Dei Filius; tr. in Catechism... | |
 | Scott R. Burson, Jerry L. Walls - 2009 - 312 pages
...the thought-world, which in turn becomes a true first cause of an external result.2 FRANCIS SCHAEFFER God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy...nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.3 God s Sovereignty and Human Significance Predestination, Divine... | |
 | Gary J. Dorrien - 1998 - 280 pages
...rooted in the assumption of total divine control," he explained. The Westminster Confession asserts that "God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy...freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass."152 Pinnock recounted that it was out of this theological presupposition of total divine control... | |
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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... 
