Sovereign Grace

The proposition to the defense of which the apostle arises in the above-cited section reads, "Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth." This is the apostle's way of say­ing that the Lord in deciding on whom He would have mercy and whom He should harden, took account of absolutely nothing or no one but Himself; that when the selection was made, His will only entered in as the determining factor. Let us trace the path of the apostle's reasoning. With the...