"It is not on the basis of human works, whether performed or foreseen, that God decrees to elect some based on unmerited grace and pass by (preterition) others based on proximate sinful works."

"I hope that the verdict will call for the death penalty."

"The elect are saved by God's free grace, without any merit of their own."

"The knowledge of God without the knowledge of ourselves is vain."

"...those whom God passes over [praeterit], he condemns [reprobat]; and this he does for no other reason than that he wills to exclude them from the inheritance which he predestines [praedestinat] for …"