PREDESTINATION

(In Gr. vpaopiatioc, Rom., viii., 29; Eph. i., 5, 11.) The belief that God has from all eterof nity decreed whatever comes to pa . In a theological sense, it is thus defined in the 17th Article of our church A S; " Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby, before the foundations of the world were laid, he posihath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to derest, liver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to mosun's everlasting salvation." The Lambeth Articles, agreed to in 1595 by a portion of the clergy, a ert that " God from symeternity hath predestinated certain men unto life, certain he the hath reprobated." Theological writers have generally for be exbornetouse the word predestination with respect to the rejected": Nefas est dicere Deum a liquid nisi bonum praedes oblate tinare." (August., He Dono Persevcrantiw.) See Elbc tion, Calvin ism. [s. 990]