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1693·The Common Faith
Question 7 of 82
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God

What are the decrees of God?

Answer

The decrees of God are His eternal purpose according to the counsel of His own will, by which, for His own glory, He has foreordained whatever comes to pass ().

Read the 1 proof texts (KJV)
Ephesians 1:11-12
11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.