Chapter 16) DIVINE ELECTION

1. We believe that, when the entire offspring of Adam plunged into perdition and ruin by the transgression of the first man,¹ God manifested Himself to be as He is: merciful and just. Merciful, in rescuing and saving from this perdition those whom in His eternal and unchangeable counsel² He has elected³ in Jesus Christ our Lord⁴ by His pure goodness, without any consideration of their works.⁵ Just, in leaving the others in the fall and perdition into which they have plunged themselves.⁶

1. Rom 3:12
2. John 6:37, John 6:44; John 10:29; John 17:2, John 17:9, John 17:12; John 18:9
3. 1 Sam 12:22; Psalm 65:4; Acts 13:48; Rom 9:16; Rom 11:5; Titus 1:1
4. John 15:16, John 15:19; Rom 8:29; Eph 1:4-5
5. Mal 1:2-3; Rom 9:11-13; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:4-5
6. Rom 9:19-22; 1 Pet 2:8