# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1905_S156
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

156 Die Prädestination nach der Westminster Confession of Faith.

Cecree — aus und baut darauf in den nachfolgenden Capiteln das Lehr⸗
system auf.“)

Es seien nun zunächst die einschlägigen Bekenntnißsätze in extenso
angeführt:

„Ch. III. —I. God from all eternity did by the most wise and
holy counsel of his own free will, freely and unchangeably ordain
whatsoever comes to pass: yet so as thereby neither is God the
author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures,
nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but
rather established.

II. Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to
pass upon all supposed conditions; yet hath he not decreed any-
thing because he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come
to pass upon certain conditions.

III. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory,
gome men and angels are predestinated umto everlasting Vfe, and others
foreordained to eperlasting death.

IV. These angels and men, thus predeéstinated and fore-
ordaineéd, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their
number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased
or diminished.

„V. Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God,
before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal
and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure
of his will, hath chosen in Christ, unto everlasting glory, out of his
mere freée grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good

1) Die sämmtlichen Capitel sind: I. Ofthe Holy Scripture; II. Of God, and
of the Holy Trinity; III. Of God's Eternal Decrée; IV. Of Creation; V. Of
Providence; VI. Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof;
VII. Of God's Covenant with Man; VIII. Of Christ the Mediator; IX. Of
Free Will; X. Of Effectual Calling; XI. Of Justification; XII. Of Adoption;
XIII. Of Sanctifcation; XIV. Of Saving Faith; XV. Of Repentance unto
Life; XVI. Of Good Works; XVII. Of the Perseverance of the Saints;
XVIII. Ofethe Assurance of Grace and Salvation; XIX. Of the Law of God;
XX. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience; XXI. Of Religious Wor-
ship and the Sabbath Day; XXII. Of Lawful Oaths and Vows; XXIII. Of
the Civil Magistrate; XXIV. Of Marriage and Divorce; XXV. Of the Church;
XXVI. Of the Communion of Saints; XXVII. Of the Sacraments; XXVIII. Of
Baptism; XXIX. Of the Lord's Supper; XXX. Of Church Censures; XXXI. Of
Synods and Councils; XXXII. Of the State of Man after Death, and of the
Resurrection of the Dead; XXXIII. Of the Last Judgment. — Wir citiren hier
und im Folgenden nach „The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the
U. S. of A.: Being its Standards subordinate to the Word of God, etc.“
Philadelphia. Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work,
1903. Autorisirte Ausgabe.