{"number":20,"question":"Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?","answer":"God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.","segments":[{"text":"God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life","proofs":["Ephesians 1:4"],"refs":[{"printed":"Ephesians 1:4","osis":["Eph.1.4"]}],"note":null},{"text":"did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.","proofs":["Romans 3:20–22","Galatians 3:21–22"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 3:20–22","osis":["Rom.3.20-Rom.3.22"]},{"printed":"Galatians 3:21–22","osis":["Gal.3.21-Gal.3.22"]}],"note":null}],"section":null,"relations":{"bc1695-modernized":["23"],"wlc-modernized":["30","31","32","33","34","35"],"wsc":["20"]},"diffs":[],"page":"157","leaf":79}