The Passive Receiving Of Christ

The Will Of God Is Eternal Because He Does Not Begin To Will What He Did Not Will Before, Nor Cease To Will What He Willed Before.

The Inward Offer Is A Kind Of Spiritual Enlightenment, Whereby The Promises Are Presented To The Hearts Of Men, As It Were, By An Inward Word.

The Efficiency Of God May Be Understood As Either Creation Or Providence.

The Ordinary Ministry Is That Which Receives All Of Its Direction From The Will Of God Revealed In The Scriptures And From Those Means Which God Has Appointed In The Church For Its Continual Edification.

Active Creation Is Conceived As A Transitive Action In Which There Is Always Presupposed An Object About Which The Agent Is Concerned; It Is Virtually But Not Formally Transitive Because It Makes, Not Presupposes, An Object.