Tuesday, July 14, 2009

MAY FAIL

BY the former steps is the altar of Ahaz set on the right hand of the altar of God, — the Arminian idol, in a direct opposition, exalted to an equal pitch with the power and will of the Most High. I shall now present unto you the Spirit of God once more contending with the towering imaginations of poor mortals……they affirm that his will may be resisted, he may fail of his intentions, be frustrate of his ends,— he may and doth propose such things as he neither doth nor can at any time accomplish, and that because the execution of such acts of his will might haply clash against the freedom of the will of men; which, if it be not an expression of spiritual pride above all that ever the devil attempted in heaven,

John Owen. A Display of Arminianism. Chapter 6 (p.64)