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ABSOLUTE

PREDESTINATION

JEROME ZANCHIUS

(1516-1590)

OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIVINE

ATTRIBUTES,

NECESSARY TO BE PREMISED,

IN ORDER TO OUR BETTER UNDERSTANDING

THE DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION.

ALTHOUGH the great and ever-blessed God is a being absolutely simple and
infinitely remote from all shadow of composition, He is, nevertheless, in

condescension to our weak and contracted faculties, represented in Scripture as
possessed of divers Properties, or Attributes, which, though seemingly different
from His Essence, are in reality essential to Him, and constitutive of His very

Nature.

Of these attributes, those on which we shall now particularly descant (as being

more immediately concerned in the ensuing subject) are the following ones:

I. His eternal wisdom and foreknowledge

II. The absolute freedom and liberty of His will
III. The perpetuity and unchangeableness both of Himself and His decrees

IV. His omnipotence
V. His justice