but whom he predispos'd, he calls: and whom he has call'd, he justifies: and whom he has justified, he glorifies.

I call Christ, and the holy spirit to witness with my conscience, that I speak the truth without guile, when I say,

for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

is not the potter the master of his own clay, of the same mass to make one vessel for use and ornament, and another for a meaner purpose?

as he saith himself in Osee, "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her, beloved, which was not beloved.

In reality there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile: they have all the same Lord, who is bountiful to all that call upon him.

"whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved."

But how, say you, shall they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?

loves others hath fulfilled the law. for this, "thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet;" and whatever social precept there be, it is reduced to this single head,