De Moor VIII:16: The Order of Creation
The Aptness in the Order of Production also shines forth; since God has declared His Wisdom and Goodness in the progress from things Less...
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Dr. Dilday
Dec 23, 202317 min read
De Moor VIII:15: The Aptness of Creation
The production of all things was perfectly Apt, with respect to the Things themselves, concerning which § 15; with respect to the Order,...
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Dr. Dilday
Dec 11, 20238 min read
De Moor VIII:14: The Material Cause of Creation, Part 2
The Creation of Bodies is called the Second Creation, which followed the First Creation of Heaven and Earth accomplished in the first...
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Dr. Dilday
Nov 22, 202315 min read
De Moor VIII:13: The Material Cause of Creation, Part 1b
This Truth is to be held, α. not only or exclusively against all Ancient Philosophers that, if they do not quite think the Matter,...
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Dr. Dilday
Nov 2, 202315 min read
De Moor VIII:13: The Material Cause of Creation, Part 1a
But when we contemplate Creation more passively, it indicates an Apt Production of Things, flowing from that Command of Will; so that the...
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Dr. Dilday
Oct 21, 20236 min read
De Moor VIII:12: The Formal Cause of Creation, Part 3
Creation is also an Act of God so Free, that it was not necessary that God will to create: and so here obtains, not only the Liberty of...
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Dr. Dilday
Oct 13, 20236 min read
De Moor VIII:11: The Formal Cause of Creation, Part 2
In working the Creature passes from Idleness to Labor, from Potency to Act, and then returns again from labor to rest, because the...
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Dr. Dilday
Oct 3, 20239 min read
De Moor VIII:10: The Formal Cause of Creation, Part 1
Moreover, the Creation considered Actively indicates; α. Not natural Generation, whereby through communication of Essence is produced...
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Dr. Dilday
Sep 23, 20234 min read
De Moor VIII:9: The Efficient Cause of Creation, Part 4
The Act of Creation is common to the Trinity: we have already produced passages proving this, and have vindicated it at length, Chapter...
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Dr. Dilday
Sep 15, 20238 min read
De Moor VIII:8: The Efficient Cause of Creation, Part 3
Indeed, the Power of Creation, because Omnipotent, is Incommunicable; for the divine Omnipotence is indivisible and incommunicable. Not...
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Dr. Dilday
Sep 6, 20235 min read
De Moor VIII:7: The Efficient Cause of Creation, Part 2
Indeed, this work of Creation ought to be claimed for God Alone, on account of the clear passages asserting it, Nehemiah 9:6; Job 9:8;...
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Dr. Dilday
Aug 23, 202315 min read
De Moor VIII:6: The Efficient Cause of Creation, Part 1
Thus before all things we attribute this Work to God as Author; who, 1. Himself testifies or causes to testify to this concerning...
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Dr. Dilday
Jul 26, 20231 min read
De Moor VIII:5: The Definition of Creation
It is defined; etc.[1] A similar definition of Creation, which is then admirably explained, is related in ’t Examen van ’t Ontwerp van...
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Dr. Dilday
Jul 17, 202315 min read
De Moor VIII:4: The Truth of Creation
The Truth of Creation is taught generally, 1. not only by Scripture, in many Passages to be cited in this Chapter, especially in Genesis...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 28, 20239 min read
De Moor VIII:3: The Term, "Creation": Part 2
The term Creation is sometimes extended actively to Men; and then it denotes, either simply to make, or to do with care: thus PLAUTUS[1]...
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Dr. Dilday
Jun 14, 20238 min read
De Moor VIII:2: The Term, "Creation": Part 1
Perhaps CREATION was so called from the Hebrew קָרָא/qara, to call. In his Compendio our AUTHOR makes mention of various other...
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Dr. Dilday
May 31, 20231 min read
De Moor VIII:1: From the Internal to the External Works of God
After the Internal, Immanent, Eternal Acts of God now follow the External, Transient, Temporal Works of God, which posit an effect...
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Dr. Dilday
May 29, 20234 min read
De Moor VIII: Outline of the Doctrine of Creation
Chapter VIII treats of the CREATION, I. To the treatment of which our AUTHOR approaches by a suitable Transition, § 1. II. It is...
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Dr. Dilday
May 26, 202317 min read
Wendelin's "Christian Theology": Doctrine of the Creation of Men
THESIS XII: Man is an animal created in the image of God. THESIS XIII: The Efficient of man is the Most Holy Trinity, God the Father,...
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Dr. Dilday
May 6, 20234 min read
Wendelin's "Christian Theology": Doctrine of the Creation of Angels
THESIS X: Among the principal works of creation are Angels and men. THESIS XI: An Angel is a spiritual substance, created, complete,...
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