John Calvin — "God has a secret counsel, by which he chooses whom he will, and rejects whom he …"

"For the will is so overwhelmed by wickedness and so pervaded by vice and corruption that it cannot in any way escape to honorable exertion or devote itself to righteousness."

"The wicked are a kind of chaff, that the wind driveth away."

"The decree is dreadful, I confess. Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree."

"All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has…"

"We frankly confess that God has ordained to death those whom he has not deemed worthy of life."