From Reformation to Reformation

But today they continue in the Goodness and Felicity previously Confirmed , without any further danger or fear of losing their Goodness or Felicity.  We hold this against the Remonstrants , to whom, on account of their hypothesis concerning free Choice, it appears, that the Good Angels are not able to be said formally to obey God, unless they are also able not to obey, as I review this their opinion in § 9.  That the Goodness and Felicity of the Good Angels is already Immutab

These were created Good , not only Physically, but Ethically as rational creatures, or as furnished with Wisdom and Holiness worthy even of God . But yet, in the next place, the habitual gifts were Mutably granted to them ; so that those habits of Wisdom and Holiness granted to them by Creation were not regarded in themselves as Immutable.  It is not proven that they were Immutably Good  by their very Creation:  our AUTHOR makes the contrary opinion especially probable:  α. 

[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] Angels, α.  are ludicrously divided by Sex , since they are mere Spirits, among whom neither marriage nor generation obtains, according to Matthew 22:30.  Nevertheless, there were not those wanting, who established one of the Cherubs on the ark as male and the other as female, with Mola

Moved unto this end .  The very ones that acknowledge not that Angels with respect to Essence are in a certain Where, deny the same with respect to Essence also to be moved from Place to Place.  Thus WITTICH, Theologia pacifica , § 187:  Just as place is not properly applicable to Angels, so an Angel is neither moved, nor able to be said to be moved, in any other way than to the extent he ceases to operate there, and begins to operate here .  BURMAN, Synopsi Theologiæ , book

[ If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] But, as they furnish all that Ministry to God; so  also did they furnish it to the  Θεανθρώπῳ/ Theanthropos / God-man  Archangel , at the command of the Father , Hebrews 1:6; upon which passage see WESSELIUS’ Dissertationes Academicas  XVI-XVIII, compared with his Nestorianismo et Adoptianismo redivivo confut

[ If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] The Office  of Angels is to minister to God :  hence in a special manner and κατ᾽ ἐξοχὴν, pre-eminently , they are called the Ministers of God , Psalm 103:21; 104:4:  but God makes use of their Ministry, not out of necessity or want; for, as He created all things by His mere Word, so also is He able to govern

Quite pleasing to me are those things that the Reverend STARINGH, [1] in his Bybels zakelyk Woordenboek , on the term SCHELLE, part  7,...

Moreover, with respect to the Object  of the Power of Angels, the extent is the same: α.  They are not capable of All Things :  Indeed,...

Finally, because they are Spirits, they are mighty in Power .  Indeed, with the directive principium, the Intellect, and the commanding...

In addition to Intellect, Angels or Rational Spirits enjoy a Free Will , which, nevertheless, 1.  as is the case with all Creatures, is...

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That the term Angels  is used in Scripture in diverse senses, our AUTHOR shows in this §. 1.  The name  Angel is often given to Christ,...