The Attributes Of God Tell Us What

The Good Pleasure Of God Is An Act Of The Divine Will Freely And Effectively Determining All Things.

In The Exercise Of God's Efficiency, The Decree Of God Comes First. This Manner Of Working Is The Most Perfect Of All And Notably Agrees With The Divine Nature.

The First Act Of Religion, Therefore, Concerns Those Things Which Are Communicated To Us From God. The Other Concerns Those Things Which We Yield To God.

Sanctification Is Not To Be Understood Here As A Separation From Ordinary Use Or Consecration To Some Special Use, Although This Meaning Is Often Present In Scripture, Sometimes Referring To Outward And Sometimes To Inward Or Effectual Separation.

This Subsistence, Or Manner Of Being Of God Is His One Essence So Far As It Has Personal Properties.