 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 558 pages
...exbecause he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass, upon such conditions.* III. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...life, and others fore-ordained to everlasting death." IV. These angels and men, thus predestinated and fore-ordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed;... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - Hymns, English - 1839 - 296 pages
...all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever." Or this : — " By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto eternal life, and others foreordained to everlasting death." This, surely, is not the express language... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - Hymns, English - 1839 - 476 pages
...utterly irreconcilable : I mean the once popular doctrine of eternal election and reprobation — that, " by the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are elected to everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death." Here the question arises,... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 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...foreordained to everlasting death. These angels and men tbus predestinated and fore-ordained are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so... | |
 | John H. Leith - Religion - 1982 - 760 pages
...thing because he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions. III. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his...life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. IV. These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed;... | |
 | A. H. Saxon - Biography & Autobiography - 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...and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.1 As if these bracing Calvinistic tenets were not enough, New England, at the time of Barnum's... | |
 | Shirley C. Guthrie - Religion - 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 - Religion - 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... | |
 | Milton J. Coalter, Virgil Cruz - Religion - 1995 - 212 pages
...and angels who are predestinated to everlasting life and the number foreordained to everlasting death "is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished."45 The word "gospel" resounds throughout the new chapter, but it lacks the note of news... | |
 | Tyron Inbody - Religion - 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... | |
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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. 
