Reformed Confessions
Canons of Dort
First Point | Article 10
Divine Election And Reprobation
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Election Based on God’s Good Pleasure
The cause of this gracious election is solely the good pleasure of God. This good pleasure does not consist in this, that out of all possible conditions God chose certain qualities or actions of men as a condition for salvation, but in this, that out of the common mass of sinners he adopted certain persons to be his own possession. For it is written, though they (the twins) were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, and so on, she (namely, Rebekah) was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated” (Rom 9:11-13; cf. Gen 25:23; Mal 1:2-3). And, as many as were appointed to eternal life believed (Acts 13:48).