Schaff - History of the Christian Church Vol. 8 - Media Sabda Org

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“Tametsi in Christo eligimur, ordine tamen illud prius est ut nos
Dominus in suis censeat, quam ut faciat Christi membra.
“Tametsi Dei voluntas summa et prima est rerum omnium causa, et
Deus diabolum et impios omnes suo arbitrio subiectos habet, Deus
tamen neque peccati causa vocari potest, neque mali autor, neque ulli
culpae obnoxius est.
“Tametsi Deus peccato vere infensus est et damnat quidquid est
iniustitiae in hominibus, quia illi displicet, non tamen nuda eius
permissione tantum, sed nutu quoque et arcano decreto gubernantur
omnia hominum facta.
“Tametsi diabolus et reprobi Dei ministri sunt et organa, et arcana
eius judicia exsequuntur, Deus tamen incomprehensibili modo sic in
illis et per illos operatur ut nihil ex eorum vitio labis contrahat, quia
illorum malitia iuste recteque utitur in bonum finem, licet modus
saepe nobis sit absconditus.
“Inscite vel calumniose faciunt qui Deum fieri dicunt autorem peccati,
si omnia eo volente et ordinante fiant: quia inter manifestam hominum
pravitatem et arcana Dei iudicia non distinguunt.”
II. The Lambeth Articles.
In full agreement with Calvin are the LAMBETH ARTICLES, 1595. They
were intended to be an obligatory appendix to the Thirty-nine Articles
which, in Art. XVII., present only the positive side of the doctrine of
predestination, and ignore reprobation. They were prepared by Dr.
Whitaker, Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, and approved by, Dr.
Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Hutton, Archbishop of York, and
a number of prelates convened at Lambeth Palace, London; also by Hooker
(with a slight modification; see Hooker’s Works, ed. by Keble, II. 752 sq.).
But they were not sanctioned by Queen Elizabeth, who was displeased that
a Lambeth Synod was called without her authority, nor by James I., and
gradually lost their power during the Arminian reaction under the Stuarts.
They are as follows: —
“1. God from eternity hath predestinated certain men unto life; certain
men he hath reprobated.