Decrees, Conditional

No. 79

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Decrees, Conditional

Due distinctions seem not to have been observed in asserting that all the decrees of God are unconditional, which has occasioned difficulty in controversies about the decrees. There are no conditional decrees in this sense, viz. that decrees should depend on things, or conditions of them, that in this decree that depends on them as conditions, must be considered as themselves yet undecreed. But yet decrees may in some sort be conditions of decrees, so as that it may be said that God would not have decreed some things had he not decreed others. -WJE 18:321

Term Set A: decree decrees decreed

Term Set B: condition conditions conditional

Max Distance Between Terms = 10

Reference List A/B

WJEO 13:217 - The "Miscellanies," a-500
WJEO 18:321 - The "Miscellanies," 501-832

Reference List B/A

WJEO 1:286 - Freedom of the Will
WJEO 13:217 - The "Miscellanies," a-500
WJEO 13:243 - The "Miscellanies," a-500
WJEO 18:159 - The "Miscellanies," 501-832
WJEO 18:321 - The "Miscellanies," 501-832

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