Excerpt from The Oeconomy of the Covenants, Between God and Man, Vol. 2 of 3: Comprehending a Complete Body of Divinity III. We thus describe it: Election is the eternal, free, and immutable counselof God, about revealing the glory of his grace, in the eternal salvation of some certain persons. Iviost of the parts of this description are in these words of the apostle According as he hath chosen as in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love having predestinated as unto the adoption of children, by Jesus Christ to himself, to the praise in the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved, Eph. I. 4, 5, 6. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.