The Declaration Of Principles (4)

I think that thus far I have clearly shown from the Confessions that the promise of God is unconditional, that it is meant only for the elect, whether you conceive of them as in the counsel of God or as believers, that is, as those in whose heart God efficaciously works faith, and that therefore faith is not a condition, but a mere instrument or means of God whereby the elect are brought into saving contact with the promise of God. We will now continue the Declaration, for it can only be...