The Providence of God (7)

Government We concluded our last article with a quotation from Rev. H. Hoeksema's Dogmatics. Writing on that phase of God's providence which is known as Government, Rev. Hoeksema writes that God, when creating the world, did not have all kinds of possibilities in mind, but was moved and prompted by only one purpose. And that one purpose was, not to perfect all things in the first Adam, who was of the earth, earthy, but to bring them to final perfection in Christ, Who is the Lord from heaven....