"What was there in you, and in me, that should move God to
choose us before others? Was there any fitness foreseen in us,
except a fitness for damnation? I believe not. No, God chose
us from eternity; He called us in time; and, I am persuaded,
will keep us from falling finally, till time shall be no more.
Consider the gospel in this view, and it appears a consistent
scheme."