{"id":"1.10","chapter":1,"number":10,"text":"The good pleasure of God is the sole cause of this gracious election; which doth not consist herein, that God foreseeing all possible qualities of human actions, elected certain of these as a condition of salvation; but that he was pleased out of the common mass of sinners to adopt some certain persons as a peculiar people to himself, as it is written, “For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil,” &c. “It was said (namely to Rebecca) the elder shall serve the younger; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” “And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”","segments":[{"text":"The good pleasure of God is the sole cause of this gracious election; which doth not consist herein, that God foreseeing all possible qualities of human actions, elected certain of these as a condition of salvation; but that he was pleased out of the common mass of sinners to adopt some certain persons as a peculiar people to himself, as it is written, “For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil,” &c. “It was said (namely to Rebecca) the elder shall serve the younger; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”","proofs":["Romans 9:11–13"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 9:11–13","osis":["Rom.9.11-Rom.9.13"]}],"note":null},{"text":"“And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”","proofs":["Acts 13:48"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 13:48","osis":["Acts.13.48"]}],"note":null}],"relations":{},"diffs":[],"page":"62","leaf":116}