 God, the God of all mercies, to be the most fierce and unreasonable tyrant in the world. For the question is not here, what God may do by an absolute act of power, would He so use it upon the creature which He made of nothing ; but what He hath done,...  Liturgy, episcopacy and Church ritual, 3 speeches - Page 103by William Laud (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Charles Hare Simpkinson De Wesselow - Anglicanism - 1894 - 328 pages
...High Churchmen against the doctrine of election as the Puritans taught it, "saying almost all of them that God from all eternity reprobates by far the greater...stands with His wisdom, justice and goodness to do." 2 Nor was the little world of Oxford even in those dull days left unstirred. Foreigners began to hear... | |
 | William Edward Collins (bp. of Gibraltar) - 1895 - 378 pages
...Church of England is unchristian : " and it was a good occasion for a stern condemnation of Calvinism. " Almost all of them say that God from all eternity...stands with His wisdom, justice and goodness to do." Laud knew at least how to go to the root of the matter, and in this answer he puts it very clearly... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - Great Britain - 1897 - 536 pages
...which the doctrine of reprobation involves : ' Which opinion my very soul abominates,' he cries ; ' for it makes God, the God of all mercies, to be the...most fierce and unreasonable tyrant in the world.' It was the limitation of salvation and of the operations of grace to a few which he thought so intellectually... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - Great Britain - 1898 - 548 pages
...which the doctrine of reprobation involves : ' Which opinion my very soul abominates,' he cries ; ' for it makes God, the God of all mercies, to be the...most fierce and unreasonable tyrant in the world.' It was the limitation of salvation and of the operations of grace to a few which he thought so intellectually... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1900 - 548 pages
...both Romanists and Puritans ; thus Laud, speaking of the Calvinist doctrine of Reprobation, says : " Which opinion my very soul abominates ; for it makes...most fierce and unreasonable tyrant in the world." And so Chillingworth, against the Roman position that disagreeing Protestants must be damned since... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman, Leighton Pullan - Church and state - 1900 - 156 pages
...appoints the means for their damnation. Laud declared this opinion to be one which his soul abominated, ' for it makes God, the God of all mercies, to be the...most fierce and unreasonable tyrant in the world.' Laud and the Puritans were both right in this, there could not be room for him and them in the same... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - England - 1903 - 402 pages
...Church of England is unchristian " ; and it was a good occasion for a stern condemnation of Calvinism. "Almost all of them say that God from all eternity...stands with His wisdom, justice, and goodness to do." Laud knew at least how to go to the root of the matter, and in this answer he puts it very clearly... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - Great Britain - 1903 - 398 pages
...Church of England is unchristian " ; and it was a good occasion for a stern condemnation of Calrinism. " Almost all of them say that God from all eternity...stands with His wisdom, justice, and goodness to do." Laud knew at least how to go to the root of the matter, and in this answer he puts it very clearly... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - England - 1908 - 540 pages
...which the doctrine of reprobation involves : 1 Which opinion my very soul abominates,1 he cries ; ' for it makes God, the God of all mercies, to be the most fierce and unreasonable tyrant in the world.1 fit was the limitation of salvation and of the operations of grace txra few which he thought... | |
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