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“It is “a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”
“Methinks Paul himself, in this very chapter, gives us a form of sound words, where he speaks of “God who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”