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Subsection
God’s Essential Works ad intra & ad extra
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Articles
1500’s
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
‘Works of God’ 8.b
‘The Kinds of the Works of God’ 9.b
‘Judgments of God’ 445.a
What judgment is 445.a
That the judgments of God be of two sorts 445.b
That the causes of God’s judgments ought not to be searched 446.b
What is the use of God’s judgment in this world 448.b
Of the extreme and Last Judgment 449.b
Of the tokens going before the latter judgment 450.a
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (London: Veale, 1573)
The Summary of the Christian Doctrine
Of the Principal Works of God, by the which He has declared Himself to Men
A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism
5th Dialogue
Of the Principal Works of God whereof mention is made in the Symbol of the Apostles
Of the Union that is between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost in their works
Of the Moderation & Measure that ought to be holden in this matter
6th Dialogue
Of the Work of the Creation
Of Other Works of God that are conjoined to the work of the creation
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1600’s
Perkins, William – 6. Of God’s Works & his Decree in A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
Wolleb, Johannes – 3. ‘The Works of God, & the Divine Decrees in General’ in Abridgment of Christian Divinity (1626) in ed. John Beardslee, Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius & F. Turretin (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), bk. 1, pp. 45-50
Wolleb (1589–1629) was a Swiss reformed theologian. He was a student of Amandus Polanus.
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Francis Rous
The Great Oracle: Or, the Main Frame & Body of the Scriptures, Resolving the Question, Whether in Man’s Free Will & Common Grace, Or in God’s Special & Effectual Grace, Stands the Safety of Man & the Glory of God by Man’s Safety (1718), p. 5 Rouse was a Westminster divine.
“God is the end of Himself, in all his ways, works and counsels; neither is there any end worthy of God, but God. Therefore all his works, as they begin in Him, so they end in Him, bringing some glory to Him.”
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