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A Body Of Divinity: With Notes, Original And Selected - Softcover

Thomas Ridgley

 
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Synopsis

"A Body Of Divinity.: With Notes, Original And Selected" by Thomas Ridgley is an 18th?century theological treatise defending the Calvinist view of election and reprobation. The work argues for an unchangeable divine purpose in salvation, while affirming that human freedom and divine sovereignty work together through God’s means. Core themes include the immutability of God’s purpose, the inseparable connection between the end of salvation and the means of grace, and the compatibility of foreknowledge with a determinate decree. Ridgley analyzes preterition and pre-damnation as expressions of divine justice, and reinterprets Scripture passages often cited against election. The treatise distinguishes decree from providence, peremptory from conditional aspects, and the two forms of reprobation. Objections to universal salvation and to God’s immutability are answered by appealing to scriptural language, the sovereignty of God, and the creature’s responsible freedom. Practical implications emphasize humility, perseverance, and the use of means, with holy living as a response to God’s discriminating grace. The editor James P. Wilson frames the work as confessional, scripturally centered, and aimed at learned audiences.

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