...faithfulness in accomplishing his decree." The seventeenth article of the Episcopal Church of England says, " Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose...constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to doliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them...

...groups, and remains as one of the 39 Articles of Faith of the Church of England: Predestination to Lite is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before...Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Article 17, Articles of Religion, Book of Common Prayer Calvinism appeared to support the idea...

...election, most closely associated with Calvinism in the popular mind, is presented with subtle ambiguity: Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose...to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he has chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation.9 The apparent...

...(before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secrets to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom...to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation." Seymour, The Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, 2:44i. Free-will Christianity, or Armimanism,...

...whereby before the foundations of the world were laid, he hath constantly decreed by his own judgement (counsel) secret to us. to deliver from curse and...to bring them (by Christ) to everlasting salvation by Christ, as vessels made to honour. Whereupon such as have (Wherefore they which be indued with)...

...runneth in these Termes. Predestination to Life is the Everlasting Purpose of God, wherby, before the 60 foundations of the world were laid he hath constantly...to everlasting Salvation as vessels made to Honor. Wherfore they that be endued with so Excellent a Benefit of God, be called according to Gods purpose,...

...Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings." (ibid) Article XVII. Of Predestination and Election: "Predestination to Life is the everlasting...to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation. " (ibid) Gary's interventions discussed here concern the question of free will versus predestination,...

...to 'predestination to life' (as opposed to 'predestination to eternal damnation') and was defined as "the ever-lasting purpose of God, whereby (before...those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind". The only difference between the original version of the article, as formulated by Cranmer, and this...