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Canons of Dort · Chapter 1

First Head of Doctrine: Of Divine Predestination

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10. 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.”a “And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”b

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aRomans 9:11–13
  2. bActs 13:48

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