 | Richard Hastings Graves - 1829 - 288 sivua
...it. When it is inquired, " therefore, why the Lord did so, the answer must be, <; because he would. But if you go further, and ask, " why he so determined?...than the will of God, which can " never be found. Let human temerity, therefore, de*' sist from seeking that which is not, lest it should fail *' of... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 sivua
...wills it; when it is inquired therefore, why the Lord did so, the answer must be, because He would: but if you go further, and ask why He so determined,...higher than the will of God, which can never be found." To close the view of Calvin's opinions, I shall quote two of his most hardy decisions : "All things... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1841 - 682 sivua
...wills it. When it is inquired, therefore, why the Lord did so, the answer must be, Because he would. But if you go further, and ask why he so determined,...higher than the will of God, which can never be found. Let human temerity, therefore, desist from seeking that which is not, lest it should fail of finding... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1859 - 344 sivua
...wills it ; when it is inquired therefore, why the Lord did so, the answer must be, because He would : but if you go further, and ask why He so determined...higher than the will of God, which can never be found." To close the view of Calvin's opinions, I shall quote two of his most hardy decisions : " All things... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1880 - 882 sivua
...the Lord did so, the answer must be: 'Because He would.' But * Opera (Amst. Ed.), tom, viii., 1638. if you go further and ask why He so determined, you...than the will of God, which can never be found.'' — Book III., ch. xxiii., § 2. Exceedingly strong language this, and language which, as we have just... | |
 | 1880 - 884 sivua
...the Lord did so, the answer must be: 'Because He would.' But * Opera (Amst. Ed.), toru, viii., 1638. if you go further and ask why He so determined, you...and higher than the will of God, which can never be found."—Book III., ch. xxiii., § 2. Exceedingly strong language this, and language which, as we... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1880 - 996 sivua
...did so, the answer must be: 'Because He would.' But * Opera (Amat. Ed.), tom, viii., 1638. if vougo further and ask why He so determined, you are in search...and higher than the will of God, which can never be found."—Book III., ch. xxiii., § 2. Exceedingly strong language this, and language which, as we... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1886 - 506 sivua
...wills it. When it is inquired, therefore, why the Lord did so, the answer must be, Because He would. But if you go further, and ask why He so determined,...higher than the will of God, which can never be found." (Inst., III. 23.) Calvin, however, notwithstanding this strong statement, suggests after all that he... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1894 - 928 sivua
...that he wills it. When you ask, therefore, why the Lord did so, the answer must be, Because he would. But if you go further and ask why he so determined, you are in search of something higher and greater than the will of God, which can never be found. Let human temerity, therefore, desist... | |
 | Hugh Young Reyburn - 1914 - 394 sivua
...Therefore / when it is asked Why the Lord did so, the answer must be, Because He would. If you go farther and ask why He so determined, you are in search of...higher than the will of God, which can never be found." * Dealing with the objection that if men are antecedently predestinated to corruption it is mockery... | |
| |
For the will of God is the highest rule of justice; so that what he wills must be considered just, for this very reason, because he wills it. When it is inquired, therefore, why the Lord did so, the answer must be, Because he would. But if you go further,... 
