God Is Either Ignorant, Accidental, Or Omnipotent
If God’s determination concerning any thing should have a temporal original, it must needs be either because he then perceived some goodness in it of which before he was ignorant, or else because some...
View ArticleWe Do What We Can, He Does What He Wills, and He Never Fails
In all our intentions, if the defect be not in the error of our understandings, which may be rectified by better information, when we cannot do that which we would, we will do that which we can: the...
View ArticleWhat Arminians Do With The Foreknowledge of God…and The Way It Really Is
The prescience or foreknowledge of God hath not hitherto, in express terms, been denied by the Arminians, but only questioned and overthrown by consequence, inasmuch as they deny the certainty and...
View ArticleWhat God Knows, part 1 of 3
Divines, for distinction’s sake, ascribe unto God a twofold knowledge; one, intuitive or intellective, whereby he foreknows and sees all things that are possible,—that is, all things that can be done...
View ArticleWhat God Knows, part 2 of 3
Out of this large and boundless territory of things possible, God by his decrees freely determines what shall come to pass, and makes them future which before were but possible. After this decree, as...
View ArticleWhat God Knows, part 3 of 3
For every thing to be produced next and under him, God hath prepared divers and several kinds of causes, diversely operative in producing their effects, some whereof are said to work necessarily, the...
View ArticleOrdaining Sin
It is laid down as a firm foundation, that “known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world,” Acts 15:18. Every thing, then, that in any respect may be called his work, is known unto...
View ArticleThe Providence of God In The Casting of Lots
Between the birth and death of a man, how many things merely contingent do occur! how many chances! how many diseases! in their own nature all evitable, and, in regard of the event, not one of them...
View ArticleThe Babylonian Tower of Arminianism
The sum of their [Arminians] endeavor is, to prove that the will of man is so absolutely free, independent, and uncontrollable, that God doth not, nay, with all his power cannot, determine it...
View ArticleBefore The Foundation of The World
This election the word of God proposes unto us as the gracious, immutable decree of Almighty God, whereby, before the foundation of the world, out of his own good pleasure, he chose certain men,...
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