Lord’s Day 9, Chapter 3: The Eternal Father Creator (1)

Very properly and beautifully the Heidelberg Catechism, speaking of God's fatherhood with respect to all things, as the Creator of heaven and earth, mentions God's eternal counsel. It is true that, it introduces this counsel here, strictly speaking, not in connection with creation, but as the power whereby God still upholds and governs all things; but this necessarily implies that the same universe that is thus upheld by God's counsel was also created according to and by the same eternal...