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: James T. Dennison,
Jr., Reformed
Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation,
vol. 4 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), emphasis added]
Rejection
of the error of those: ... Who teach that ... most especially the places of
Scripture (Ezek.
18:21 [18:23] etc. and 31:11 [33:11]; John 3:16; I Tim. 2:4; 2 Peter
3:9) ought to be extended to each and every man and by these the universality
of love and grace ought to be proved. (p. 421; cf. p. 417)
[…]
Rejection
of the error of those: ... Who teach that by His revealed disposition, God
wills the salvation of each and every one. (p. 421)
[N.B. The Geneva Theses (1649), drafted by
Theodore Tronchin (1582-1657) and Antoine Léger (1594-1661), approved by
Geneva’s Venerable Company of Pastors and signed on their behalf by the
moderator, Joannes Jacobus Sartorius (1619-1690)].
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