De Moor on Predestination

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Canons of Dort, chapter 1, article 17: “Since we are to judge of the will of God from His Word which testifies that the children of believers are holy, not by nature, but in virtue of the covenant of grace, in which they, together with the parents, are comprehended, godly parents have no reason to doubt of the election and salvation of their children whom it pleaseth God to call out of this life in their infancy.”

De Moor VII:33: The Object of Reprobation, Part 2

As far as the Object of Reprobation, more comparatively considered, is concerned: the Remonstrants hold, α. that for the common ill, which passed from Adam to his posterity, and which, with respect to Original Sin, they almost entirely deny, a common Remedy in Christ was provided, and that He...

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Westminster Larger Catechism 13: What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?
Answer: God, by an eternal and immutable decree, out of his mere love, for the praise of his glorious grace, to be manifested in due time, hath elected some angels to glory; and in Christ hath chosen some men to eternal life, and the means thereof: and also, according to his sovereign power, and the unsearchable counsel of his own will, [whereby he extendeth or withholdeth favour as he pleaseth,] hath passed by and foreordained the rest to dishonour and wrath, to be for their sin inflicted, to the praise of the glory of his justice.

De Moor VII:33: The Object of Reprobation, Part 2

As far as the Object of Reprobation, more comparatively considered, is concerned: the Remonstrants hold, α. that for the common ill, which passed from Adam to his posterity, and which, with respect to Original Sin, they almost entirely deny, a common Remedy in Christ was provided, and that He...

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Canons of Dort, chapter 1, article 6: “That some receive the gift of faith from God and others do not receive it proceeds from God’s eternal decree, for ‘known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world’ (Acts 15:18). ‘Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will’ (Ephesians 1:11). According to which decree, He graciously softens the hearts of the elect, however obstinate, and inclines them to believe, while He leaves the non-elect in His just judgment to their own wickedness and obduracy. And herein is especially displayed the profound, the merciful, and at the same time the righteous discrimination between men, equally involved in ruin; or that decree of election and reprobation revealed in the Word of God, which though men of perverse, impure and unstable minds wrest to their own destruction, yet to holy and pious souls affords unspeakable consolation.”

De Moor VII:35: The Proximate End of Reprobation

These are at the same time predestined to Final Unbelief and Impenitence. The Remonstrants, who maintain that Election and Reprobation were not properly made from eternity, but are temporary Acts, at this point invert the order of things, so that they might make an offering to the idol of Free...

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Should the Biblical Doctrine of Predestination cause anyone to despair of salvation?

De Moor contemplates this intensely personal question...

De Moor VII:36: The Subjective Uncertainty of Reprobation

Hence Reprobation is Objectively Certain, or Immutable; see above, § 13, 14: but Subjectively Uncertain: because, α. Grace is granted through effectual Calling at various Moments, Matthew 20:1, 3, 5, 6, the sense of which Parable concerning the Workers in the Lord’s Vineyard our AUTHOR...

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De Moor surveys the Sublimity, Necessity, and Usefulness of the Biblical Doctrine of Predestination...

De Moor VII:37: The Sublimity, Necessity, and Usefulness of the Doctrine of Predestination

The doctrine of Predestination thus expounded, however it may be traduced by our Adversaries, is nevertheless commended by our AUTHOR, 1. As Most Sublime, and not only inaccessible to natural man, but wonderful to believers themselves, Romans 11:33, 34. Whence it ought to be handled prudently...

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De Moor on Predestination

De Moor gives a massive and masterly exposition of the Doctrine of the Predestination of Men to Salvation or Damnation.

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