ABSTRACT
Predestination' infers one of two things, – either that whatever one may will, and whatever one may do, certain consequences, such as one's state in the next world, will inevitably take place, by the decree of God. Or it means that God, at his appointed time, calls a certain number into that state of grace, which will have for its consequences hereafter salvation, and leaves the rest in the state in which they are by nature, of sin and death. When man knows all God's laws he will perceive the full beauty of them; it will be impossible for him to wish one to be altered, for he will see that if one were other than it is, man could not attain the full happiness prepared for him; it will be impossible for him to wish other than what God wishes, because he will see the perfection of it.
