“That our God is eternal, incomprehensible, and immutable, so are His counsels constant, subject to no mutability nor change, constant, I say, in God Himself, howsoever things change to our apprehension.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: God, eternal, Counsel, Constant
“If you cannot see just causes why God should make that thing very good which after should become extremely evil, accuse your own blindness; and desire of God to repress in you that presumption and pride which against the Eternal Son of God you have conceived.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Just, God, Good, Evil
“If God’s glory be declared and made manifest, even by the miseries which some creatures sustain, dare you therefore accuse God of cruelty? Consider your bold foolishness, and repent your blasphemies before vengeance strike.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: glory, God, Misery, Cruelty, Love of God
“Neither yet can you be able to prove, that we either by word or writing have affirmed, that the principal end of any man’s creation was perpetual pain.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Man, Creation, End, Pain, Suffering
“If Predestination proceedeth from God’s purpose and will as the apostle affirmeth that it doth, then the purpose and will of God being eternal, can not be moved by our works or faith being temporal.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Predestination, purpose, Will, God, eternal
“You (the Anabaptists) make the love of God common to all men, and that do we constantly deny.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Anabaptist, Love of God, Denial, Rejection, God
“If these things do displease you, remember first, that they are the voices of the Holy Ghost; and secondly, call to mind the condition of mankind (compared with that sovereign Majesty) be but worms creeping upon the earth, and therefore we can not climb up to heaven, and so reason or plead with the…”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Holy Ghost, God, voice, Faith
“Such as desire this Article to be buried in silence, and would that men should teach and believe that the grace of God's election is common to all, but that one receiveth it and another receiveth it not, proceedeth either from their obedience or disobedience; such deceive themselves and are unthankf…”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Teachings, Belief, Receiving Love, Love of God, obedience
“For howsoever we be changeable, yet is God in His counsel stable and immutable.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Loyalty, Love of God, Counsel, Stable
“But yet I say, that the doctrine of God’s eternal predestination is so necessary to the church of God, that, without the same, can faith neither be truly taught, neither surely established; man can never be brought to true humility and knowledge of himself; neither yet can he be ravished in admirati…”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: Doctrine, Predestination, Church, God
“Satan ever from the beginning hath declared himself enemy to the free and undeserved love of God. He hath now in these most corrupt days most furiously raged against that doctrine, which attributeth all praise and glory of our redemption to the eternal love and undeserved grace of God alone.”— John Knox, amazon.comTagged: satan, Love of God, Unworthy, Rage, Corrupt