Election

“None of God's elect die before they are converted.”

“If you know that Christ loves you, you may know assuredly that you are elected.”

“Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.”

“As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.”

“None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.”

“Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.”

“Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.”

“The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.”

“God hath decreed the end, so He hath decreed the means that are proper for attaining that end; so that these two must not be separated.”

“He chose us not because we were lovely, but that He might make us lovely.”

“Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.”

“God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.”

“We, the called and faithful and chosen, will drive away our griefs, and set up our banners of confidence in the name of God.”

“I do not come into this pulpit hoping that somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter.”

“Here we see the infinite love of God, that He has been pleased to think of us poor creatures from everlasting.”

“Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.”

“Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.”

“God's decrees are eternal, most wise, free, unchangeable, most holy and pure, and effectual.”

“Predestination is the decree of God, by which he has ordained all men to a certain and everlasting estate.”

“The benefits proper unto men are of two sorts: some are common to all men both and bad, and some proper to the elect and faithful.”

“It was from eternity that he laid in his own bosom a design for our happiness.”

“How many millions of sins in every one of the elect, every one of which is enough to condemn them all, hath this love overcome!”

“Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.”

“He loves all, and gives outward benefits to all, but to me he hath given himself, so love I him.”

“But on the contrary, if the Lord do let thee lye in the filth of thy sin, it is an Argument that he never set his heart upon thee.”

“Not a foot has any soul ever advanced to God, till God had advanced to him, and drawn him.”

“When a traveller sees the sun almost down, he would make haste; so if we believed that the time of grace is short, we would begin to make our calling and election sure.”

“If these nations were denied the gospel, because God foreknew they would reject it, then they are condemned for a thing they never did, but which God merely foresaw they would do.”

“Men are bound to understand the Scriptures, and they should investigate and ascertain what is there meant by election.”

“Here lies the weight of God's honour, and the salvation of an elect world; and this required no less solid a bottom than the testimony of truth itself.”