...crucifying of the Man Christ Jesus is exhibited to the world as a deed which executed the counsel of God: "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel "and...foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wick"ed hands have crucified and slain." Where is the understanding thai is able to comprehend the wisdom of con.tvivance,...

...by'way of illustration.- — "Him being delivered by the determinate counsel, and, fort' Jowwledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain." Acts, ii. 23. God decreed, and produced the human soul and body of Jesus Christ, and put him in the way of the Jews;...

...triumphs was JERUSALEM. Those simple words of Peter, addressed to the Jews on the day of Pentecost, " Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and with wicked hands have crucified and slain," wounded three thousand to the heart, who were drawn...

...balanced — a thing which could not be under such a power. The words of the text which Dr Coplestone has chosen for his third discourse, are remarkably...certainty, possible, contingent," &c. In the tenor of all these observations, I cannot, however, agree. " One example," says Dr Coplestone, " has already...

...from eia in perpetrating it; No— for hear what the Apostle Prter says to them on this subject, " Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and...foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain." Other striking instances might be adduced, but these will suffice. But it...

...miracles, wonders and signs, which God did, by him, in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know 5 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and...foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and sluiu : Whom Cod hath raised • np, having loosed the pains of death : because...

...forever. Rom. 11. 36. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Acts 15. 18. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and...foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have trurified and slain. Acts 2. 23. There are many devices in a man's heart ; 'nevertheless the rounsel...

...the business ? Let the text speak]—" but ao unto that man by whom he is betrayed." Acts ii. 33. " Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. ye have taken—[well, what is the crime, if it is God's determinate counsel or decree ?]—and with wicked...

...compound word, but it has the uncompounded verb, in a connexion amounting to precisely the same. " Him, being delivered by the determinate " counsel...foreknowledge of God, ye have " taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and " slain." •* Ty wpia-fiieyTi faAif x«< ifffyviafu r5 &e5 must mean the same as...

...undergone. The divine Father had appointed them : Him," says the apostle, " being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain." The divine Son had engaged to. sustain them : " When he cometh into the...