We call predestination God's eternal decree, by which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others.
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"It is not on the basis of human works, whether performed or foreseen, that God decrees to elect some based on unmerited grace and pass by (preterition) others based on proximate sinful works."
"Whence it is sufficiently plain that they are not chosen for their own merit, but because God has gratuitously chosen them."
"All who are truly godly desire to live a holy life."
"The reprobate are like hardened clay, which, the more it is baked, the harder it becomes."
"For the mind of man, when it has once been infected with this pest, is so utterly perverse that it is with difficulty restrained from framing for itself, after the example of the devil, some new and u…"
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, Chapter 21, Section 5
Date: 1559
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