Calvin’s Doctrine of Predestination, Or Magnifying God’s Grace by Double Predestination

We shall never be clearly persuaded, as we ought to be, that our salvation flows from the wellspring of God's free mercy until we come to know his eternal election, which illumines God's grace by this contrast: that he does not indiscriminately adopt all into the hope of salvation but gives to some what he denies to others. J.Calvin, Institutes, III, xxi, 1 Dearly beloved brethren, we must not be amazed if the article of the everlasting predestination of God, be so assaulted and fought against...