The reason why some are saved and others perish is not to be sought in their own will, but in the secret counsel of God.
Protestant reformer
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 22, Section 11
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"Whence it is sufficiently plain that they are not chosen for their own merit, but because God has gratuitously chosen them."
Shocking"The true way to learn God's will is to listen to his Word."
Strange & Unusual"The whole life of a Christian should be a meditation on death."
Strange & Unusual"Ignorance is the mother of superstition."
Humorous"For the will is so overwhelmed by wickedness and so pervaded by vice and corruption that it cannot in any way escape to honorable exertion or devote itself to righteousness."
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