Monday, March 31, 2008

AC 6478-6493 - the Lord and His Infinite and Eternal Providence - a review

AC 6478
... the Lord is in every single thing,
for the Lord is such that He wills to give Himself to all,
and hence good fortune and bliss are increased
with those who are images and likenesses of Him.

AC 6485
... for many reason Providence acts silently and secretly;
and that if it aced openly, man could not possibly be reformed.

AC 6487
All the things which are from the Lord are most essential;
but they do not follow in order from necessity,
but in a manner that is applicable to the freedom of man.

AC 6488
... no one has ever been predestined to hell,
but that all have been predestined to eternal life.

AC 6489
... nothing is permitted except for the end that some good may come out of it;
but as man has freedom, in order that he may be reformed,
he is bent from evil to good so far as he allows himself to be bent in freedom,
and (if he cannot be led to heaven) continually from the most atrocious hell,
into which he makes every effort to plunge, into a milder one.

AC 9493
... all things, nay, the leasts of all things, down to the leasts of the leasts,
are directed by the Providence of the Lord, even as to the very steps;
and when such a sphere prevails as is contrary thereto, misfortunes happen.
... there is no such thing as chance, and that apparent accident, or fortune,
is the Providence in the ultimate of order,
in which all things are comparatively inconstant.

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