Predestination.

CONTENTS:
Foreword, by John Robbins.
Introduction.
1. Creation.
2. Omniscience.
3. The Eternal Decree and Its Execution.
4. Pre-Destination.
5. Regeneration.
6. Free Will.
7. Epilogue.
Appendix: Predestination in the Old Testament, pp. 109-144.
Scripture Index.
Subject Index.

Select quote, from the Epilogue:
"If, now, we hope to shake the nations again as Luther and Calvin did, we must return to preaching all the counsel of God. If, on the other hand, this hope seems unfounded, and like Jeremiah we must preach to those who will not obey, still Christ has commanded us to teach all things revealed. Jerome Zanchius, near the end of his book on Absolute Predestination, lists some reasons for preaching the doctrine. First, he says, without it we cannot form just and becoming ideas of God. Foreknowledge, perfection, omnipotence, and sovereign grace must be abandoned, if predestination is denied. Second, to expand the last named of God's characteristics, the grace of God cannot be maintained without predestination: 'There neither is nor can be any medium between predestinating grace and salvation by human merit.' Third, by the preaching of predestination man is duly humbled and God alone is exalted: 'Conversion and salvation must, in the very nature of the case, be wrought and effected either by ourselves alone, or by ourselves and God together, or solely by God himself. The Pelagians were for the first. The Arminians are for the second. True believers are for the last.' An inquisitive reader may wish to get his book and see the remainder of his nine reasons. But the sum of all reasons is that God commands us to teach the world all that he has revealed in his Word. Let no one disobey."--p. 104-105.