[ 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 Form of the Apostolic Church   XI.  In becoming acquainted with the Form of the Apostolic Church, it is proper to attend first to its propagation , then to its qualities  and customs , and finally to its government , worship , and discipline . XII.  The Church was first planted and gathered at Jerusalem , whence in a...

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 Immutable, we gather,...

Verse 16: [1]   ( Ex. 12:23; 1 Chron. 21:15 ) And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, ( Gen. 6:6; 1 Sam. 15:11; Joel 2:13, 14 ) the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough:  stay now thine hand.  And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah ( 1 Chron. 21:15, Ornan ; [2]  see 2 Sam. 24:18; 2 Chron. 3:1 ) the Jebusite. [ When the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand ]  That is, with a...