Have I any pleasure at all that
the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from
his ways, and live? (Ezek. 18:23).
(I)
[Source: “A Tale of Two
Wills? Calvin, Amyraut, and Du Moulin on Ezekiel 18:23,” in Calvin and the Reformed Tradition on the Work of Christ and
the Order of Salvation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2012), p.
123, emphasis added.]
Where
Calvin resolved the issue of the universal call and particular election by
simply declaring a resolution in the fact that, as promised, the repentant are
saved [in Ezekiel 18:23], Amyraut indicated a double divine intentionality. Du
Moulin was quite correct in this particular criticism: neither the passage
itself, nor Calvin’s reading of it, had anything to do with two wills in God ... Calvin in fact stated that it was ‘absurd
to suppose a double will of God.’
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