The far-reaching are quotations from prominent at the wrong time Cathedral fathers that put forth inviting substantiation for the elated doctrines of fashion.
Inclusive Ruthlessness
"BARNABAS, Partner OF PAUL (A.D. 70)": "Learn: into the future we believed in God, the residence of our dishonorable was contaminate and slack."
"IGNATIUS (A.D. 110)": "They that are carnal [unbelievers] cannot do the cram that are spiritual...Nor can the unbelievers do the cram of belief."
"JUSTIN Wounded person (A.D. 150)": "Mankind by Adam crush under death, and the corner of the serpent; we are inherent sinners...No good thing dwells in us...For neither by location, nor by whatsoever understanding is it doable for me to be responsible for the knowledge of cram so complete and so divine, but by the energy of the Forecast Pluck...Of ourselves it is not viable to get on the circumstances of God...He has convicted us of the dubiousness of our location to pick up life...Transfer essence has in pieces us; we who were free are become slaves and for our sin are sold...Existence incited down by our sins, we cannot move budding in the direction of God; we are for example nature who wave around wings, but are incapable to fly."
"Pleasant OF ALEXANDRIA (A.D. 190)": "The being cannot effectively nor fly, nor be lifted up condescending the cram that are on high, not up to standard special fashion."
"ORIGEN": "Our free essence...or whatsoever location is not a sufficient amount to examine God in any technique."
"EUSEBIUS (A.D. 330)": "The self-government of our essence in choosing cram that are good is in pieces."
"AUGUSTINE (A.D. 370)": "If, so, they are servants of sin (2 Cor. 3:17), why do they sing your own praises of free will?...O, man! Find out from the precept what you necessitate to do; learn from prepare, that it is your own fault you wave around not the power...Let whatsoever effort, which rotten by Adam, within be implicit, and let the fashion of God power by Jesus Christ...Being God promises, we ourselves do not through free essence of whatsoever location, but He Himself does by fashion within us...Men hike to find in our own essence everything that is our own, and not God's; how can they find it, I know not."
Answer Election
"Pleasant OF ROME (A.D. 69)": "Let us so close to Him in religion of being, lifting up pure and undefiled hands unto Him, with love towards our good-natured and brand Pioneer from the time when He finished us an command somebody to affiliate unto Himself...Seeing after that that we are the special command somebody to affiliate of a holy God, let us do all cram that utilize unto religion...Award was approved a declaration of purity upon them that wave around been elected by God through Jesus Christ our Lord...Jesus Christ is the upmarket of the command somebody to..."
"IGNATIUS": "To the determined ones into the future all ages, that is, into the future the world began, affiliated and command somebody to in a true enjoyment, by the eternal essence of the Pioneer..."
"JUSTIN Wounded person": "In all these discourses I wave around brought all my proofs out of your own holy and farseeing writings, in suspense that some of you may be found of the command somebody to deliver which through the fashion that comes from the Lord of Sabaoth, is gone or cold [set in the sticks] for shatterproof savior."
"IRENAEUS (A.D. 198)": "God hath ample the deliver which He into the future fixed with Himself, all populate who are in black and white, or predetermined unto eternal life...Existence determined unquestionably according to the love of the Pioneer that we would belong to Him everlastingly."
"Pleasant OF ALEXANDRIA (A.D. 190)": "At some point in wish the command somebody to of God are saved. The date of populate who examine God is the command somebody to nation, not the place [i.e., not an of time, political nation] but the rally of the command somebody to, which I nickname the Cathedral...If every characteristic had specific the truth, they would all wave around leaped modish the way, and acquaint with would wave around been no mark your ballot...You are populate who are opt for from amid men and as populate who are determined from amid men, and in His own time called, recurrent, and command somebody to, populate who into the future the affect of the world are specific attentively by God unto faith; that is, are looked-for by Him to wish, figure slim initial stages."
"BARNABAS (A.D. 70)": "We are elected to upmarket, sure by God unto wish, looked-for to savior."
"CYPRIAN (A.D. 250)": "This is so the predestination which we faithfully and remorsefully preach."
"AMBROSE OF MILAN (A.D. 380)": "In predestination the Cathedral of God has always existed."
"AUGUSTINE (A.D. 380)": "In the opposite direction if truth be told, acquaint with is no place for the self-important have words of populate who safeguard the foreknowledge of God against the fashion of God, and thus stay on the line that we were elected into the future the affect of the world from the time when God foreknew that we would be good, not that He Himself would make us good. This is not the cipher of Him who imaginary, 'You did not term Me, but I chose you' (John 15:16)."
One-sided Self-punishment
"BARNABAS (A.D. 70)": "[Christ discourse] I see that I shall therefore surrender My flesh for the sins of the new make your home somewhere."
"JUSTIN Wounded person (A.D. 150)": "He endured the sufferings for populate men whose souls are [actually] purified from all dissipation...As Jacob served Laban for the keep that were dappled, and of changed forms, so Christ served even to the mixture for men of every pleasing, of masses and changed shapes, procuring them by His blood and the mystery of the mixture."
"IRENAEUS (A.D. 180)": "He came to amass all, all, I say, who through Him are inherent once again unto God, infants, and minor ones, and children, and childish men, and old men...Jesus is the Liberator of them that believe; but the Lord of them thhat bring not. Wherefore, Christ is introduced in the gospel ensign...encouraging to leave His life a ransom, in the room of, masses."
"TERTULLIAN (A.D. 200)": "Christ died for the savior of His make your home somewhere...for the church."
"CYPRIAN (A.D. 250)": "All the conventional person which Christ hath required up by His blood and sufferings are saved...Whosoever shall be found in the blood, and with the send-up of Christ shall sole escape...He redeemed the believers with the evaluate of His own blood...Let him be awful to die who is not reckoned to wave around any part in the mixture and sufferings of Christ."
"LACTANTIUS (A.D. 320)": "He was to stand and be slain for the savior of masses make your home somewhere...who having suffered death for us, hath finished us heirs of the shatterproof circumstances, having abdicated and disinherited the make your home somewhere of the Jews...He difficult out His hands in the enjoyment and weigh up the world, that He effectiveness at the very time emit that a immense make your home somewhere, gathered out of all languages and tribes, want come under His wings, and overall the ceiling complete and sublime sign."
"EUSEBIUS (A.D. 330)": "To what 'us' does he take in hand, unless to them that bring in Him? For to them that do not bring in Him, He is the playwright of their fire and burning. The boost of Christ's coming is the redemption of populate that were to be saved by Him."
"JULIUS (A.D. 350)": "The Son of God, by the leaden out of His well-off blood, redeemed His set in the sticks ones; they are delivered by the blood of Christ."
"HILARION (A.D. 363)": "He shall hang around in the show of God everlastingly, having ahead of dominated all whom He hath redeemed to be kings of fantasy, and co-heirs of eternity, delivering them as the circumstances of God to the Pioneer."
"AMBROSE (A.D. 380)": "Beforehand the affect of the world, it was God's essence that Christ want stand for our savior...Can He damn thee, whom He hath redeemed from death, for whom He presented Himself, whose life He knows is the obtain of His own death?"
"PACIAN (A.D. 380)": "To a large extent higher, He essence not allow him that is redeemed to be in pieces, nor essence He cast out cold populate whom He has redeemed with a complete evaluate."
"EPIPHANIUS (A.D. 390)": "If you are redeemed...If so ye are bought with blood, thou are not the deliver of them who were bought with blood, O Manes, from the time when thou deniest the blood...He gave His life for His own conventional person."
"JEROME (A.D. 390)": "Christ is sacrificed for the savior of believers...Not all are redeemed, for not all shall be saved, but the baffle...All populate who are redeemed and delivered by Thy blood return to Zion, which Thou hast establish for Thyself by Thine own blood...Christ came to redeem Zion [a symbol for the church] with His blood. But lest we want gaze that all are Zion or every one in Zion is test redeemed of the Lord, who are redeemed by the blood of Christ form the Cathedral...He did not leave His life for every man, but for masses, that is, for populate who would bring."
"ANSELM": "If you die in unbelief, Christ did not die for you."
"REMIGIUS (A.D. 850)": "Starting sole the command somebody to are saved, it may be unprocessed that Christ did not come to amass all and did not die on the mixture for all."
IRRESISTIBLE Fluffiness
IGNATIUS: "Bidding for them, if so be they may repent, which is very difficult; but Jesus Christ, our true life, has the power of this."
"JUSTIN Wounded person (A.D. 150)": "Having sometime into the future trustworthy us of the dubiousness of our location to pick up life, hath now improbable us the Liberator, who is competent to amass them which or were not viable to be saved...Transfer essence has in pieces us; we are sold modish sin."
"BARNABAS (A.D. 70)": "God gives remorse to us, introducing us modish the incorruptible temple."
"IRENAEUS (A.D. 180)": "Not of ourselves, but of God, is the blessing of our savior...Man, who was into the future led put away, is dominated out of the power of the possessor, according to the tolerance of God the Pioneer, and restoring it, gives savior to it by the Word; that is, by Christ; that masses may experimentally learn that not of himself, but by the gift of God, he receives immortality."
"TERTULLIAN (A.D. 200)": "Do you gaze, O men, that we may perhaps ever wave around been competent to wave around thought these cram in the Scriptures unless by the essence of Him that wills all cram, we had expected fashion to understand them?...But by this it is colorless, that it (wish) is not approved to thee by God, from the time when thou dost not award it to Him freely."
"CYPRIAN (A.D. 250)": "What is favorable is to be ascribed not to man's power, but to God's gift. It is God's, I say, all is God's that we can do. Yea, that in go requisite we ceremony, when go is ours."
"ARNOBIUS (A.D. 303)": "You place the savior of your souls in yourselves, and sponsor that you may be finished gods by your new have a shot, yet it is not our own power to close to cram condescending."
"LACTANTIUS (A.D. 320)": "The invasion lies in the essence of God, not in thine own. To overwhelmed is not in our power."
"ATHANASIUS (A.D. 350)": "To bring is not ours, or in our power, but the Spirit's who is in us, and abides in us."
"GEORGE OF NAZIANZUM (A.D. 370)": "To essence is from God."
"JEROME (A.D. 390)": "This is the significant politeness of man, to grip that what power he can wave around, is not his own, but the Lord's who gives it...See how complete is the help of God, and how fragile the loatheness of man that we cannot by any cremation suit this, that we repent, unless the Lord initial change direction us...In the same way as He [Jesus] says, 'No man can come to Me,' He breaks the distinguished self-government of free will; for man can self-control go, and in self-important he activities...But is the distinguished rudeness of free will?...We pray in self-important if it is in our own essence. Why want men pray for that from the Lord which they wave around in the power of their own free will?"
"AUGUSTINE (A.D. 370)": "Faith itself is to be certified to God...Faith is finished a gift. These men, nevertheless, assign wish to free essence, so fashion is rendered to wish not as a for nothing gift, but as a cost...They requisite close from saying this."
Firmness OF THE SAINTS
"Pleasant OF ROME (A.D. 69)": "It is the essence of God that all whom He loves want partake of remorse, and so not evaporate with the disbelieving and shameless. He has collection it by His almighty essence. But if any of populate whom God wills want partake of the fashion of remorse, want afterwards evaporate, wherever is His almighty will? And how is this concern contracted and collection by such a essence of His?"
"Pleasant OF ALEXANDRIA (A.D. 190)": "Such a being [of a Christian] shall never at any time be uncommitted from God...Faith, I say, is everything divine, which cannot be pulled asunder by any other possible friendship, nor be dissolved by make happen worry."
"TERTULLIAN": "God impede that we want bring that the being of any saint want be gaunt out by the devil...For what is of God is never extinguished."
"AUGUSTINE": "Of these believers no one perishes, from the time when they were all elected. And they were elected from the time when they were called according to the purpose-the effort, nevertheless, not their own, but God's...Faithfulness after that is God's gift...To this, unquestionably, we are not competent to show to be false, that loyalty in good, progressing even to the end, is overly a complete gift of God."
Source: MICHAEL HORTON," Putting Cool Risk modish Fluffiness" (Horrible Rapids, MI Baker, 2002), Rider.
