...damned? The consequences were immeasurable. As the seventeenth of the Thirty-Nine Articles put it: As the godly consideration of predestination and our...pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons ... so, for curious and carnal persons, lacking the spirit of Christ, to have continually before their...

...salvation dependent on God's grace, not on our efforts. Article XVII of the Church of England declares that 'the godly consideration of Predestination and our...pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons'. Coleridge said that Calvinism is a lamb in wolf's skin, 'cruel in the phrase but not in the doctrine',...

...walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity. As the godly consideration of Predestination, and...mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal Salvation to be enjoyed through Christ, as...

...fowle evening late' (11. 218-19), may glance at the theological concept of assurance which held that 'the godly consideration of Predestination, and our...pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons ... because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal Salvation to be enjoyed through...

...and Injunctions, ed. Fincham, I, 164, II, p. xxiii. The article goes on to contrast the experience of 'godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the spirit of Christ', with that of 'curious and carnal persons, lacking the spirit of Christ', pointing out the pastoral...

...everlasting felicity." Such a conception and display of the almighty wisdom, power, and love, is indeed "full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort...flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their minds to high and heavenly things; it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal salvation,...

...after Justification, ... do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith." Article 17 states, "The godly consideration of Predestination, and our...pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons." Other articles condemn the doctrine of purgatory, issuing pardons or indulgences, adoration of images...

...the 17th of our XXXIX. Articles, icake the very same observation, and nearly in the same words : " The godly consideration of predestination and our...pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of everlasting salvation to be enjoyed through...

...they walk religiously in good works and at length hy God's mercy they atrain to everlasting felicity As the godly consideration of predestination, and...election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakahle comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the spirit of Christ,...

...expressed in the seventeenth article of the church of England, that the consideration of this doctrine is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable, comfort to godly persons : and as for the charge of licentiousness, what is there but what a wicked man may abuse to encourage himself...