IAR 3.4

Irish Articles of Religion

3.4. Of God's Eternal Decree and Predestination

The cause moving God to predestinate unto life is not the foreseeing of faith, or perseverance, or good works, or of any thing which is in the person predestinated, but only the good pleasure of God himself. For all things being ordained for the manifestation of his glory, and his glory being to appear both in the works of his mercy and of his justice, it seemed good to his heavenly wisdom to choose out a certain number towards whom he would extend his undeserved mercy, leaving the rest to be spectacles of his justice.

For discussion

  1. WCF 3.1 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
  2. SC60 4.3 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?

Read alongside

WCF 3.1 · SC60 4.3 · SHC 3.1