Jerome Zanchius
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Girolamo Zanchi (1516–1590) — commonly known as Jerome Zanchius — was an Italian Reformed theologian who became one of the most rigorous systematic theologians of the early Reformed tradition. His treatise on absolute predestination, translated and popularized by Augustus Toplady, is a precise defense of the Calvinist doctrine of election from both Scripture and patristic sources.
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His Eternal Wisdom and Foreknowledge (Observations on the Divine Attributes - Part I)
With respect to The divine wisdom and foreknowledge, I shall lay down the following positions: Position l. God is, and always was so perfectly wise, that nothing ever did, or does, or can elude His knowledge. He knew, from all eternity, not only what He Himself intended to do, but also what He…
The Absolute Freedom and Liberty of His Will (Observations on the Divine Attributes - Part II)
II. To consider THE WILL OF GOD , With regard to which we assert as follows: Position l. The Deity is possessed not only of infinite knowledge, but likewise of absolute liberty of will, so that whatever He does, or permits to be done, He does and permits freely and of His own good pleasure.…
The Unchangeableness of Himself and His Decrees (Observations on the Divine Attributes - Part III)
Position l. God is essentially unchangeable in Himself. Were He otherwise, He would be confessedly imperfect, since whoever changes must change either for the better or for the worse; whatever alteration any being undergoes, that being must, ipso facto, either become more excellent than it was or…