Sabbath Lessons from Westminster
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ISBN13: 9780217043090
Paperback|9780217043090
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SABBATH EVENING. Text?2 Thess. ii. 13, Goo Hath From The Beginning Chosen YOU TO SALVATION. Question XX.: Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? Answer: God Having OUT OF HIS MERE GOOD PLEASURE, FROM ALL ETERNITY, ELECTED SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE, DID ENTER INTO A COVENANT OF GRACE, TO REDEEM THEM OUT OF THE ESTATE OF SIN AND MISERY, AND TO BRING THEM INTO AN ESTATE OF SALVATION BY A REDEEMER. WE have seen the need of salvation; we are this Sabbath evening invited to meditate on its origin and nature. Let our prayer be, Show me Thy ways, O Lord. Note first the moving cause of salvation. It was God's mere good pleasure;'' not simply His pleasure, but His good pleasure, and His good pleasure alone. God loved sinners. Why did He do so 1 Because of any excellence or merit in them, actual or foreseen 1 No; Scripture forbids any such thought. He loved men simply because He chose so to do. And this good pleasure dwelt in God and moved Him from all eternity. His purpose of grace lies in the dateless past, ere time or the world was. God's good pleasure gave birth to a gracious decree. He elected some to everlasting life; not some in contrast to many, but some as distinct from all. These He made the objects of His special love in Christ. If there are certain difficulties which gather around this truth, there are more and greater involved in its rejection, for it is written large and plain on the page of Scripture. If any man seek to know whether hebe of the elect before accepting salvation as offered in the gospel, let him ponder this answer. There are three links of a chain between man and God. The first is election, half hidden in the clouds around the throne; the next is effectual calling; the thi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217043090 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217043097 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 110 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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