From Reformation to Reformation

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. 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.] Concerning the Species of the first Angelic Sin the Sacred Scripture teaches no more determinately, than concerning the Time of the commission of this Sin. That they, or a part of them, did

The time of this Fall is uncertain. However, that some delay came between the Creation of Angels, which is the work of God, and the defection, which is the act of the Demons, is asserted not without reason; lest, if their very first operation be thought to be vicious, the cause of the sin should appear to be fastened to their Creator God, as the proximate efficient: TURRETIN observes this with others, Theologiæ Elencticæ, locus IX, question V, § 2, against certain Scholasti

Whatever the case may be, this Sin, whereby the Evil Angels defected from God, is treated, as our AUTHOR observes, in 2 Peter 2:4, with which passage he wants Jude 6 to be compared; for the comparison of the passages shows with sufficient clarity, that one and the same thing is treated. Now, here in 2 Peter the Angels in a general way are said to have sinned; in Jude they are mentioned in a particular way to be μὴ τηρήσαντες τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀρχήν, ἀλλὰ ἀπολιπόντες τὸ ἴδιον οἰκητή

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. 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 fount of Evil is their Fall, Voluntary and Impudent, whereby these Angels defected from God, because they wanted to defect: now, they were able to defect, because they were created muta

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. 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.] Although they were made Good Mutably: which the Event abundantly showed in their Fall, since we have already evinced that they were not created Evil. Not very long after their Creation they

As every created thing is Metaphysically true, so also in the same sense it is Good; and so, to the extent that those Evil Angels possess real Being, to such an extent they possess Goodness. But it is asked here concerning their Moral Wickedness, whereby they are out of conformity with God and the rule of His most holy Law: Whence did that derive its origin? Our AUTHOR warns that care is to be taken, lest we look for that Wickedness from the very Creation of these Angels:

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[A fundraising update: We are a little more than 30% of the way to our fundraising goal of 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. 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.] Moreover, elsewhere the Prince of the Evil Angels is called the god of this World , 2 Corinthians 4:4, where by the god of this World we ought not to understand worldly lus

[A fundraising update: We are a little more than 30% of the way to our fundraising goal of 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. 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.] Among whom there is one especially eminent by the name of , 1. Satan , which sometimes indeed appears to be taken for whatever Evil Angel, for example, Matthew 12:26; but i

[A fundraising update: We are a little more than 30% of the way to our fundraising goal of 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. 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.] On § 21 and following , carefully compare VOETIUS, Disputationum theologicarum , part I, pages 906-984, where he discourses concerning the Nature and Operations of Demons

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

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,...

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