"_Q_. Are all the decrees of God then unchangeable?--_Ans_. Yes: from all eternity, he hath, for his own glory, unchangeably foreordained whatsoever comes to pass." (p. 53.) "_Q_. Does anything come to pass in time but what was decreed from eternity?--_Ans_. No: for the _very reason why anything_ comes to pass in time, is _because God decreed_ it." (p. 54.) "_Q_. Are things that are casual or accidental positively decreed?--_Ans_. Yes." (_Ib_.) "_Q_. What has the decree of God fixed with respect to man's continuance in this world?--_Ans_. It has _immovably fixed_ the precise moment of _every_ one's _life_ and _death_, with _every particular circumstance thereof_." (_Ib_.) "_Q_. How does God execute his decrees?--_Ans_. God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence." (p. 57.) "_Q_. What is it for God to execute his decrees?--_Ans_. It is to bring them to pass; or give _an actual being in time_, to what he _purposed from eternity_." (_Ib_.) "_Q_. Does not God leave the execution of his decrees to second causes?--_Ans_. Whatever use God may make of second causes, in the execution of his decrees, yet they are _merely tools_ in his overruling hand, to bring about his glorious designs, and must do all his pleasure." (_Ib_.) "_Q_. Are there not certain means by which the decrees of God are executed?--_Ans_. Yes; but these _means_ are _decreed as well as the end_." (p. 52.) "_Q_. Is there an exact harmony or correspondence, between God's decree and the execution of it?--_Ans_. When the thing decreed is brought actually into being, it _exactly corresponds_ to the idea or platform of it _in_ the infinite _mind_ of _God_." (p. 57.) "_Q_. Can none of the decrees of God be defeated or fail of execution?--_Ans_. By no means." (_Ib_.) "_Q_. Does God's governing providence include in it his _immediate concurrence_ with every action of the creature?--Ans. Yes; God not only _efficaciously concurs_ in _producing_ the action, as to the matter of it; but likewise _predetermines_ the creature to such or such an action, and _not to another, shutting up all other ways of acting_, and leaving _that only open_ which he had _determined_ to be done." (p. 67.) "_Q_. Why are the decrees of God said to be _absolute_?--_Ans_. Because they depend upon no condition without God himself, but entirely and solely upon his own sovereign will and pleasure." (p. 52.) On page 67 he tells us that "the _worst action_ that was ever _committed_, the _crucifying_ of the Lord of glory, was _ordered_ and _directed_ by God." The Rev. Dr. Musgrave says, &c.: "In the former chapter, we endeavored to explain and prove the three following propositions:-- "1. That _all things that come to pass_ in time, have been _eternally_ and _unchangeably foreordained_, because most certainly foreknown to the infinitely perfect Jehovah." (p. 18.)