A Body of Divinity, Vol. 2 of 4: Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion Are Explained and Defended (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Ridgley, Thomas

 
9780243950133: A Body of Divinity, Vol. 2 of 4: Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion Are Explained and Defended (Classic Reprint)

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Quest. XXXI. The covenant of grace made Christ, and, in him, with the elect.

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Quest. XXXI. The covenant of grace made Christ, and, in him, with the elect.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A Body of Divinity, Vol. 2 of 4: Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion Are Explained and Defended

But it more evidently appears, from scripture, that the world was made in the beginning of time, and therefore did not exist from eternity; since therein we read, that in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, Gen. I. 1. And elsewhere, Thou, Lord, in the beginning, hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the worhs of thine hands, Heb. I. 10. Now since we are not to confound time and eternity together, or to say, that that which was created in the beginning, was without be ginning, that is, from eternity, it is evident that no creature was eternal.

Thus having considered the impossibility of the existence of finite things, from eternity, we may here take occasion to vindio cate the account we have in scripture, concerning the world's hav mg been created between five and six thousand years since, from the objections of those who suppose, that the antiquity thereof exceeds the scripture-account by manv ages. Those that fol low the LXX translation of the Old Testament, in their chto nological account of time, suppose the world to be between fourteen and fifteen hundred years older than we have ground to conclude it is, according to the account we have thereof in the Hebrew text. This we cannot but think to be a mistake, and has led many of the fathers into the same error who.

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