The term decree refers to the determination of God’s will concerning everything that would ever take place in time. “God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever come to pass.”2 The decree of God encompasses the doctrine of predestination but is ultimately a broader category. While predestination is God’s decree concerning the eternal destinies of all men (in election and reprobation, the major subject of the remainder