Of predestination and election

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1. Predestination to lyfe, is the euerlastyng purpose of God, wherby (before the foundations of the world were layd) he hath constantly decreed by his councell secrete to vs, to deliuer from curse and damnation, those whom he hath chosen in Christe out of mankynde, and to bryng them by Christe to euerlastyng saluation, as vessels made to honour. Wherfore they which be indued with so excellent a benefite of God, be called accordyng to Gods purpose by his spirite workyng in due season: they through grace obey the callyng: they be iustified freely: they be made sonnes of God by adoption: they be made lyke the image of his onelye begotten sonne Iesus Christe: they walke religiously in good workes, and at length by gods mercy, they attaine to euerlastyng felicitie.

Commentary

Gilbert Burnet, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1699), on 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Thomas Rogers, The Faith, Doctrine, and Religion, Professed, and Protected in the Realm of England, Expressed in Thirty-Nine Articles (1607), on 17.1, 17.2, 17.3

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