Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.