Ephesians 1:3-4

Ephesians 1:3-4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

The apostle commences by laying down the great doctrine of predestinating love. There is little gospel preached where election is denied. We carvel that some of us should be regarded as in error because we preach the doctrine of God’s divine sovereignty in giving grace to men; whereas, in former times, the opponents of that glorious system would have been reckoned as the heretics. Turn to all the great creeds that are preserved, and you shall find that truth mentioned. Above all, we can scarcely conceive that any person who is a member or a minister of the Established Church, and finding election in his own Church’s articles, can, in the least degree, deny it. It is the glory of that Church that it has a Calvinistic creed, and so far it is in harmony with the Scriptures.