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53 Supralapsarians
SUPRALAPSARIANS Persons who hold that God, without any regard to the good or evil works of men, has resolved, by an eternal decree, supra lapsum, antecedently to any knowledge of the fall of Adam, and independently of it, to save some and reject others: or, in other words, that God intended to glorify his justice in the condemnation of some,…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 2, Verse 18
“Wherefore we would have come unto you, etc.]” They not only had a will, and purposed in themselves, and entered into some resolutions to come unto them, but endeavoured to put them into execution: “even I Paul:” As well as Silas and Timothy; the latter of which had been with them, and the others had as good a will, and…
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The Love Of God
The love of God is the highest, most exalted thought ever to enter the human mind. Of all the perfect attributes of the eternal, infinite Being revealed to mankind what is more wonderful than God’s love? What greater privilege than to receive it? What fuller joy than to experience it? The love of God amazed the prophets and thrilled the…
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November 24—Morning Devotion
"Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, for my Name is in him."—Exodus 23:20, 21 Who can this be, my soul, but Jesus? He, and He only, who is the whole of the covenant, is also…
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52 Reprobation
REPROBATION The act of abandoning, or state of being abandoned, to eternal destruction, and is applied to that decree or resolve which God has taken from all eternity to punish sinners who shall die in impenitence; in which sense it is opposed to election.
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 2, Verse 17
“But we, brethren, being taken from you, etc.]” Here more properly should begin the third chapter, in which the apostle having before observed the manner of his entrance among these people, the nature of his ministry, the reception the word of God met with among them, and the powerful effect it had upon them, insomuch that they patiently and cheerfully…
