{"id":"8.1","chapter":8,"number":1,"text":"That God hath even before the foundation of the World chosen, (or elected) to eternal life, such as believe, and so are in Christ yet confident we are, that the purpose of God according to election, was not in the least arising from fore-seen faith in, or works of righteousness done by the creature, but only from the mercy, goodness, and compassion dwelling in God, and so it is of him that calleth, whose purity and unwordable holiness, cannot admit of any unclean person (or thing) to be in his presence, therefore his decree of mercy reaches only the godly man, whom (saith David) God hath set a part for himself.","segments":[{"text":"That God hath even before the foundation of the World chosen, (or elected) to eternal life, such as believe, and so are in Christ","proofs":["John 3:16","Ephesians 1:4","2 Thessalonians 2:13"],"refs":[{"printed":"John 3:16","osis":["John.3.16"]},{"printed":"Ephesians 1:4","osis":["Eph.1.4"]},{"printed":"2 Thessalonians 2:13","osis":["2Thess.2.13"]}],"note":null},{"text":"yet confident we are, that the purpose of God according to election, was not in the least arising from fore-seen faith in, or works of righteousness done by the creature, but only from the mercy, goodness, and compassion dwelling in God, and so it is of him that calleth,","proofs":["Romans 9:11"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 9:11","osis":["Rom.9.11"]}],"note":null},{"text":"whose purity and unwordable holiness, cannot admit of any unclean person (or thing) to be in his presence, therefore his decree of mercy reaches only the godly man, whom (saith David) God hath set a part for himself.","proofs":["Psalm 4:3"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 4:3","osis":["Ps.4.3"]}],"note":null}],"relations":{},"diffs":[],"page":"5","leaf":3}