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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often... →
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not... →
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the... →
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly... →
The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is... →