A Brief Instruction on the Eternal Approval & Disapproval of the Divine Mind, & for Explaining the Nature of so Difficult a Thing

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Robert Rollock, a fountain of reformed theology in Scotland, here treats of the important distinctions to be recognized within God’s decree of predestination, especially as it comes to be variously executed through time in providence.  Of special interest is his formulations regarding God's will and the salvation of all people:

“Approval without the decree belongs to all good things with respect to themselves, though they are not at any time realized, of which sort are the conversion, faith, and salvation of reprobates; which God surely approves of simply, but does not decree to come about… 1 Tim. 2:4, ‘Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.'”

This short work of Rollock’s was left untranslated in his two volume Select Works.

About the author

Robert Rollock (c. 1555 – 1599) was the first professor of theology at Edinburgh University and was a fountain-head for the covenant theology that ensued through the Scottish Post-Reformation era.

Charles F. Johnson earned a Bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of Illinois and translates from the reformed scholastics at his blog, Reformed Theology Delatinized.

Travis Fentiman, MDiv, is the webmaster of ReformedBooksOnline.com. He lives in Vermont with his dear wife and four children. He has written theological books entitled, The Civil Government’s Authority about Religion & the Church, Circa Sacra: An Extended Introduction, 1 Corinthians – Head Coverings are Not Perpetual & they were Hair-Buns, with or without Material, Proven and The Biblical Sabbath is from Dawn to Dawn, amongst numerous articles. He has translated numerous historic reformed articles from Latin and worked in the translation process of numerous volumes of Peter van Mastricht's Theoretical Practical Theology.

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