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“The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.”

Hands Law Silence Fate Eternal Lays Endure Supreme Command Thee Iron Submit Decree

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”

Long Body Form Spirit Born Path Thousand Ten Eternal Seasons Regard Blessed Ancient Bitter Wander Mortals Broads Bloody Long Life Oath Gore Heirs Decree Utterance Thrice

Author:Empedocles

“The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.”

“[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.”

Ifs Wells May Action Causes One Thing Effects Eternal All Things Productions Determined Former Almighty Hereafter Decree Causality Concur

Book:Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition

Source: Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition

“By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man”

Men Mean Happens Eternal Regard Determined Every Man Decree Predestination

Book:The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”

People Believe Happens Able Certain I Believe Divine Eternal Determination Doctrine Eternal Life Decree Predestination

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved and frail free-will.”

Men Believe Heart Natural Eternal Fruit Free Will Persevere Decree Frail Bending Depraved

Author:William Jenkyn

“God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author”

World May Certain Causes Sin Eternal Responsible Entrances Decree

Book:Systematic Theology

Source: Systematic Theology

“Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author”

Sin Eternal Permission Decree

Author:J. Oliver Buswell

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