“Q. What has the decree of God fixed with respect to man’s continuance in this world?—Ans. It has immovably fixed the precise moment of every one’s life and death, with every particular circumstance thereof.” (Ib.)
“Q. How does God execute his decrees?—Ans. God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence.” (p. 57.)
“Q. What is it for God to execute his decrees?—Ans. It is to bring them to pass; or give an actual being in time, to what he purposed from eternity.” (Ib.)
“Q. Does not God leave the execution of his decrees to second causes?—Ans. Whatever use God may make of second causes, in the execution of his decrees, yet they are merely tools in his overruling hand, to bring about his glorious designs, and must do all his pleasure.” (Ib.)
“Q. Are there not certain means by which the decrees of God are executed?—Ans. Yes; but these means are decreed as well as the end.” (p. 52.)
“Q. Is there an exact harmony or correspondence, between God’s decree and the execution of it?—Ans. When the thing decreed is brought actually into being, it exactly corresponds to the idea or platform of it in the infinite mind of God.” (p. 57.)
“Q. Can none of the decrees of God be defeated or fail of execution?—Ans. By no means.” (Ib.)
“Q. Does God’s governing providence include in it his immediate concurrence with every action of the creature?—Ans. Yes; God not only efficaciously concurs in producing the action, as to the matter of it; but likewise predetermines the creature to such or such an action, and not to another, shutting up all other ways of acting, and leaving that only open which he had determined to be done.” (p. 67.)
“Q. Why are the decrees of God said to be absolute?—Ans. Because they depend upon no condition without God himself, but entirely and solely upon his own sovereign will and pleasure.” (p. 52.)
On page 67 he tells us that “the worst action that was ever committed, the crucifying of the Lord of glory, was ordered and directed by God.”