The Rev. Dr. Boardman, of this city, in his discourses on the doctrine of election, not only quotes with approbation that part of the Confession of Faith which says, "God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass" (p. 49), but also says: "Some persons appear to think that the Divine decrees are restricted to spiritual matters. This is so far from being a correct opinion, that the Scriptures represent ALL EVENTS, however _trivial_, as being embraced in those decrees." In this connection, he also affirms "that the Divine decrees embrace not only _ends_ but _means_, and that both in temporal and spiritual things, where an end is decreed, the _means_ by which it is to be reached or accomplished are _also decreed_." (pp. 56, 57.) Dr. Chalmers, in his discourse on Predestination, says: "Let us not conceive that the _agency_ of _man_ can bring about _one single iota_ of _deviation_ from the _plans_ and the _purposes_ of _God_, or that he can be compelled to vary in a single case by the movement of any of those subordinate beings whom he hath himself created. There may be a diversity of operations, but it is God who worketh all in all. Look at the resolute and independent man, and you then see the purposes of the human mind entered upon with decision, and followed up by vigorous and successful exertions. But these _only make up one diversity of God's operations_. The _will of man_, active, and spontaneous, and fluctuating as it appears to be, is an _instrument in his hand_--and he turns it at his pleasure--and he brings other instruments to act upon it--and he plies it with all its excitements--and he measures the force and proportion of each of them--and _every step_ of _every individual_ receives as _determinate_ a _character_ from the _hand of God_, as every mile of a planet's orbit, or every gust of wind, or every wave of the sea, or every particle of flying dust, or every rivulet of flowing water. This power of God knows no exception. It is absolute and unlimited, and while it embraces the vast, it carries its _resistless_ influence to all the minute and unnoticed diversities of existence. It reigns and operates through all the secrecies of the inner man. _It gives birth to every purpose. It gives impulse to every desire. It gives shape and color to every conception_. It wields an entire ascendency over every attribute of the mind, and the will, and the fancy, and the understanding, with all the countless variety of their hidden and fugitive operations, are submitted to it."