Predestination should be publicly taught and insisted upon to confirm and strengthen true believers in the certainty and confidence of their salvation. For when regenerate persons are told and are enabled to believe that the glorification of the elect is so assuredly fixed in God’s eternal purpose that none of them can perish and when the regenerate are led to consider themselves as actually belonging to this elect body of Christ, what can establish, strengthen and settle their faith like this? Nor is such a faith presumptuous, for every truly converted man may and ought to conclude himself elected since God the Spirit renews those only chosen by God the Father and redeemed by God the Son. This is that ‘hope which maketh not ashamed’ nor can issue in disappointment if entertained by those into whose hearts the love of God is poured forth by the Holy Ghost given unto them.
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