48 – Essential Internal Acts


ESSENTIAL INTERNAL ACTS

 § 48. The essential internal acts of God are such exertions of essential attributes of God as terminate within the Godhead, but in which the three persons of the Trinity concur. Such acts are the eternal decrees of God, the decrees of creation,1 of redemption,2 and of predestination.3


1.

Cf .§ 49.


2.

Cf. § 50.


3.

Cf. § 51.