...doctrine found its way into the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1563). Art. 17: "As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our...flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith...

...The Church of England in Article 17 declares the beneficial value of good predestinarian teaching: the "godly consideration of Predestination, and our...Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh . . . and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm...

...in marking difference. The English predestinarían decree dwells upon the knowledge of election as 'full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to...in themselves the working of the spirit of Christ': the Scots gives far greater weight to the objective theology of Christ's atonement, and man's depravity,...

...important in marking difference. The English predestinarian decree dwells upon the knowledge of election as 'full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to...in themselves the working of the spirit of Christ': the Scots gives far greater weight to the objective theology of Christ's atonement, and man's depravity,...

...The Church of England in Article 17 declares the beneficial value of good predestinarian teaching: the "godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, 14 pleasant, and unspeakable com-fort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working...

...walk religiously in good works and at length by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity. As the godly consideration of predestination, and our...flesh and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it 295 salute consequenda per Christum plurimum stabilit...

...which they adde this holy Grave and wholsom caution. As the godly Consideration of Predestination 70 and our Election in Christ is full of Sweet pleasant...unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselvs the working of the Spirit of Christ, Mortifying the Works of the flesh, and their Earthly...

...proto-Arminian anxieties. Earlier English Protestants had taken it for granted, as the 39 Articles put it, that 'godly consideration of predestination, and our election...pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons'. Precisely because the Almighty had predestined his elect, his love for them could be assumed to be...

...can also quote the Thirty-Nine Articles5' on predestination and election. Consideration of election is full of "sweet pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons" and those who "feel in themselves the working of the spirit of Christ."58 Then there are others, who are...

...whom he hath chosen in Christ . . . and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation. . . . . . . the godly consideration of Predestination, and our...is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort. . . . When I read that as a teenager, it sounded pretty good to me. What I fastened on, without entirely...