 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...confession of faith, read, 'predestination to life is the ever-lasting purpose of God, whereby ... he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret...to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind'.2' Calvinist divines suggested, however, that the number of the... | |
 | Darryl J. Gless - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 300 pages
...vols. (1897; Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1977), III, p. 497. Predestination is defined here as "the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the...to deliver from curse and damnation, those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation." 10 See,... | |
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Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind,... 
