The history of creeds Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...quia prcesciverit Deus, quern exitum esset habiturus homo, antequam ipsum conderet, et ideo prasciverit, quia decreto suo sic ordinarat. In prascientiam Dei si quis hie invehatur, temere et inconsulte impingit. Quid enim, qvtrsn, est cur reus agatur ccclestis judex quia non ignoraverit quod fulurum erat t In prrdestinationem competit, si quid est veljustie vel speciosce querimonice. Nec absurdum videri debet quod dico, JJeum non modo primi hominis casum, et in eo posterorum ruinam pravidisse, sed arbitrio quoque suo dis/iensasse. Ut enim ad ejus sapientiam pertinet, omnium que fulura sunt esse pmscium, sic ad potentiam, omnia manu sua regere ac moderari.'1 Instit. Lib. III. c. 23, § 7 (Vol. II. p. 704). 1 'Lapsus est enim primus homo, quia Dominus ita expedire censuerat; cur censuerit, nos lalet. Certum tamen est non aliter censuisse, nisi quia videbat, nominissui gloriam inde merito illustrari. Unde menlionem gloria; Dei audis, illic justitiam cogita. Justum enim esse oportet quod laudem meretur. Cadit igitur homo, Dei providentia sic ordinante, sed suo vitio cadit.... Propria ergo malitia, quam acceperat a Domino puram naturam corrupt!; sua ruina totam posteritatem in exitium secum attraxit.' Instit. Lib. III. c. 23, § 8 (Vol. II. p. 705). The difference between the supralapsarians and infralapsarians was not agitated at the time of Calvin defended this doctrine against all objections with consummate skill, and may be said to have exhausted the subject on his side of the question. His arguments were chiefly drawn from the Scriptures, especially the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans; but he unduly stretched passages which refer to the historical destiny of individuals and nations in this world, into declarations of their eternal fate in ...