Quaestio illustris: an'ne renati de sua ipsorum et de aliorum Piorum aeterna electione, certo pronunciare, & per fidem, in Domino, de eadem gloriari debeant

underneath the most beautiful and adamantine building of our Justification.

2. That Martin Bucer correctly pronounced, in the Enarrations on the 6th chapter of John, page 672: The rest commend to us again Christ's incomparable dignity, the excellence of faith, and the immutable virtue of God's election. For no one who is not elected, and not given by the Father to the Son, will ever believe in Christ. Likewise, no one given to Him will fail to come to Him: and once he has come, he will never be able to be torn away from Him. For He who acts in the children of God is stronger than he who is in the world. None are glorified unless they are justified, none are justified unless they are called, none are called unless they are predestinated. And since these are predestinated unto life—and that eternal—by God, who cannot be changed, IT IS IMPIOUS TO THINK that the life of these, which they have once perceived through faith, is not eternal, and that they could perish, against the decree of God. Since these things can be persuaded to none except the elect, that is, those endowed with the Spirit of God, and thus reborn of God: and since such things are so far from producing sloth, that nothing is better able to excite them unto the love of God, and thence unto every good work: it is sufficiently evident that they do not know what they are saying who deny that these things should be preached openly. Certainly, the more one recognizes the greater love of God toward himself, the more ardently he will love Him in return. If the reprobate are offended by these things, it is no wonder; there is nothing by which they are not offended. The Scriptures were written for the holy and the elect; to them whatever the reprobate extract from them, after the manner of spiders, must be clearly and lucidly imparted. So says Bucer.

1 John 3.14.
We KNOW that we have passed from death unto life.
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Hereby WE HAVE KNOWN charity, because He laid down His life for us.