Doctrine: The original cause of our salvation is God's election solely. Natural man finds this doctrine strange and hard; heretics separate and silence this doctrine from the gospel.
Exposition: The infinite treasure of God's election set before our eyes is Jesus. Why God's election must be preached (v. 3): to magnify God's as he deserves, and to assure us of our salvation. What God's election excludes (v. 4a): any deserving work in ourselves, and any excellence in one man compared to another.
Application: The purpose of God's election (v. 4b): to withdraw us from the evil in which we were plunged, and to call us to lives dedicated to God in all piety and holiness.
Key phrase: v. 4a ''... He chose us in him before the foundation of the world...''
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This man, undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
