Christ Gives Peace To The

The Happiness Of The Creature Consists In Rejoicing In God, By Which Also God Is Magnified And Exalted.

Whether God Has Decreed All Things That Ever Come To Pass Or Not, All That Own The Being Of A God, Own That He Knows All Things Beforehand. Now, It Is Self-evident That If He Knows All Things Beforehand, He Either Doth Approve Of Them Or Doth Not Approve Of Them; That Is, He Either Is Willing They Should Be, Or He Is Not Willing They Should Be. But To Will That They Should Be Is To Decree Them.

There Is, Therefore, No Difficulty In Answering Such Questions As These. What Cause Was There Why The Universe Was Placed In Such A Part Of Space? And, Why Was The Universe Created At Such A Time? For, If There Be No Space Beyond The Universe, It Was Impossible That It Should Be Created In Another Place; And If There Was No Time Before, It Was Impossible It Should Be Created At Another Time.

Of All The Knowledge That We Can Ever Obtain, The Knowledge Of God, And The Knowledge Of Ourselves, Are The Most Important.

If There Be Ground For You To Trust, As You Do, In Your Own Righteousness, Then All That Christ Did To Purchase Salvation, And All That God Did From The Fall Of Man To Prepare The Way For It, Is In Vain. Consider What Greater Folly Could You Have Devised To Charge Upon God Than This, That All Those Things Were Done So Needlessly; When, Instead Of All This, He Might Only Have Called You Forth, And Committed The Business To You, Which You Think You Can Do So Easily.