It is a horrible decree, I confess, but no one can deny that God foreknew what the end of man was to be before he created him, and that he foreknew it because he had so ordained it.
Protestant reformer
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 23, Section 7
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"The elect are saved by God's free grace, without any merit of their own."
Shocking"The true worship of God consists in obeying him."
Strange & Unusual"For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all."
Controversial"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."
Controversial"The wicked are a kind of chaff, that the wind driveth away."
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