Lord’s Day 21, Chapter 2: The Election of the Church (3) / Chapter 3: The Gathering of the Church (1)

Chapter 2: The Election of the Church (continued) The supralapsarians conceived of the order of the various elements in God's counsel thus, that the decree of predestination precedes those of creation and the fall; God determined to glorify Himself in some whom He ordained unto eternal life, and in others whom He predestined to eternal perdition; He decreed to do so in the way of sin and grace: the fall; He decreed to create. The decrees of creation and the fall serve, in God's counsel, the...