The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted: Translated, in Great Measure, From the Latin of Jerom Zanchius; With Some Account of His Life Prefixed (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Girolamo Zanchi

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9780266453246: The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted: Translated, in Great Measure, From the Latin of Jerom Zanchius; With Some Account of His Life Prefixed (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted: Translated, in Great Measure, From the Latin of Jerom Zanchius; With Some Account of His Life Prefixed

OF all the devices formed by Satan, and employed to fully the glory of divine Truth, that, which is nowecommonly call ed Axmmraursm, is the molt ancient, the moll dangerous, and the moll fuccefsful. Since the (all of man, it has exilled in the world, in every age and in every country. It may be called Religion gf our fallen Nature; and will never want friends and advocates on earthrfo long as the Spirit'of Error, and the corrupt heart are permitted to exert their wicked ia fluence. It is a (yflem of principles, [lated in direct oppofition to the Sovereignty-of God, difplayed in the dillribution of His favours among men; and is utterly everfive of the whole: plan of Grace revealed in the Gofpel. It proclaims open wat againfl the ellential prerogative of Deity - His abfolute right of determining the final (late of rational beings, confidered as guilty and fallen; and makes the divine P-urpol'e entirely de pendent on the creature's Will. The great god is impioufly' dethroned, that the vile idol of free wim. May be exalted in His room. Th'efproud ufurper, being feated on the thrbne dares to arraign, at his bar, every thing human and divine; and prefumes to judge, approve, or condemn every-article of the divine Tellimony', and everypiece of'divine' Conduct.

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