chapellibrary.org/files/archive/pdf-other/ottsot.pdf This is from a Sermon by Robert Traill. The first of these privileges, is election. And justly it is called the first: for nothing can be before it; for itself is before time; and all that they afterwards receive, flows from it. Election is that eternal and adorable act of free grace, wherein God the Father passed over his love to a select company of mankind, that were to come into the world; appointing them to salvation; appointing a Saviour for them, and all means fit to accomplish his design of love on them, to the praise of his grace (Eph 1:4-6). This blessing is revealed in believing. When God gives faith, he makes known his electing love; and when we act faith, we may see it. Faith is the faith of God’s elect (Titus 1:1). This, when seen, is a great ground of boldness at the throne of grace: (Luke 18:7) Shall not God avenge his own elect, that cry unto him day and night? This our Lord prays upon in John 17:9,10, I pray for them: I pray not for the world; but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. As if our Lord had said, “I am sure to be heard; for I pray for them that are partakers of thine everlasting love. They are thine by election, and given to me; they are mine, by receiving and redeeming of them.” We are bid give diligence to make our calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10). They are sure in themselves, and sure to God; but we should make them sure to ourselves: and many Christians smart sadly by neglecting this diligence.
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