God from eternity elected and appointed Christ to be the covenant head, mediator, and surety of his church, to redeem and save it.1 God elected also in Christ a great multitude, which no man can number, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, to holiness and eternal life:2 and appointed all the means necessary to accomplish this end.3 This election is eternal,4 righteous,5 sovereign,6 unconditional,7 particular or personal,8 and unchangeable.9 The election of grace wrongs no one: though God in righteousness left some persons unpredestinated, yet, he did them no injustice; they are in the same condition in which they would have been, if there had been no election; and if there had been no election of grace, no flesh would have been saved.10
1 Isa 42:1; Psa. 89:19; Eph. 1:22,23; Eph. 5:25; Heb. 7:22; 1 Pet. 1:18,19; Gal. 1:4; Matt. 1:21. 2 Eph. 1:4,11; John 13:18; Rom. 8:29,30,33; 2 Tim. 1:9; 1 Thess. 5:9; Rev. 5:9,10; Rev. 7:9. 3 Matt. 28:18-20; Acts 26:18. 4 Eph. 1:4; Eph. 3:11. 5 Rom. 9:13,14; Psa. 145:17. 6 Rom. 9:17-24. 7 Eph. 1:5-11; Matt. 11:25,26; Luke 12:32. 8 John 13:18. 9 Rom 9:11,28,29. 10 Matt. 24:22,24,31; Rom. 11:23.
