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20 results for “Of God's Decree”, plus 1 in the Atlas
WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
12
Of God’s Eternal Decree
By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
… may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath He not decreed anything because He foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
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 …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath He, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, fore-ordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore they …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of His own will, whereby He extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as He pleaseth, for the glory …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to His eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
The doctrine of this high mystery of predestination is to be handled with special prudence and care, that men attending the will of God revealed in His Word, …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
These angels and men, thus predestinated, and fore-ordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Of Providence
Although, in relation to the fore-knowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly: yet, …
Of Justification
God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fulness of time, die …
Of Synods and Councils
… to receive complaints in cases of maladministration, and authoritatively to determine the same: which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the Word of God, are to be received with …
Of the Perseverance of the Saints
… saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon …
WLC
Westminster Larger Catechism
6
What are the decrees of God?
God's decrees are the wise, free, and holy acts of the counsel of his will, …
How doth God execute his decrees?
God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the …
What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?
God, by an eternal and immutable decree, out of his mere love, for the praise of his glorious grace, to be …
What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?
The sins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required; and the abuse of it in an ignorant, vain, irreverent, …
May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace ?
True believers, by reason of the unchangeable love of God, and his decree and covenant to give them perseverance, their inseparable union with Christ, his continual intercession …
What do the scriptures make known of God?
The scriptures make known what God is, the persons in the Godhead, his decrees, and the execution of his decrees.
WSC
Westminster Shorter Catechism
2
What are the decrees of God?
The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, …
How doth God execute his decrees?
God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
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