Comfort of double predestination

The topic on which I have been asked to write, though not exclusively a Protestant Reformed distinctive, is a fundamental one for the Reformed faith. After all, in the Canons of Dordt election is called “the fountain of every saving good, from which proceed faith, holiness, and the other gifts of salvation, and finally eternal life itself.”1 This doctrine of election is paired with the doctrine of reprobation in the broader topic we call double predestination.  To find comfort in the doctrines...