A Primer on Hyper-Calvinism - Phil Johnson
This error stems from a failure to differentiate between God's redemptive love, which is reserved for the elect alone, and His love of compassion, which is expressed in the goodness He shows to all His creatures (cf. Matt. 5:44-45; Acts 14:17). - More

The Decrees of God - Arthur Allen
"The decrees of God are His eternal purpose, according to the counsel of His will, whereby, for His own glory, He hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass." - (Shorter Catechism, Q. 7.) THE question resolves itself into a discussion of the nature and properties of God's decrees. We frankly admit that the doctrine "That God hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass," goes beyond the powers of human interpretation. - More

Election - A Sermon - Charles H. Spurgeon
2 Thes. 2:13-14 - IF there were no other text in the sacred Word except this one, I think we should all be bound to receive and acknowledge the truthfulness of the great and glorious doctrine of God's ancient choice of his family. - More

The Doctrines of Election and Final Perseverance - Excerpts from a letter - John Newton
The letter was written in response to someone questioning these doctrines and complaining that, though they did not dispute the existence of these things being named in the Bible, they could not embrace them. - More

God's Sovereign Elective Grace - George M. Ophoff
The electing and rejecting God is Supreme. Such is the plain teaching of Scripture. To deny the sovereign character of elective grace is to deny that God is God. It is to maintain that of the two, God and man, man is the stronger, and thus the factor that shapes God's choice. - More

Sovereign Election - Gise J. Van Baren
Election as a doctrine of the church is often either little understood, or emphatically contradicted. There is either ignorance of this truth, or a deliberate misunderstanding of it. - More

Of Predestination - Part II - Hugh Binning
We are now upon a high subject; high indeed for an eminent apostle, much more above our reach. The very consideration of God's infinite wisdom might alone suffice to restrain our limited thoughts, and serve to sober our minds with the challenge of our own ignorance and darkness. - More

Of Predestination - Part I - Hugh Binning
In the creation of the world, it pleased the Lord, after all things were framed and disposed, to make one creature to rule over all; and to him he gave the most excellent nature, and privileges beyond the rest; so that it may appear that he had made all things for man, and man immediately for his own glory. - More

What is predestination? - R. C. Sproul
When the Bible speaks of predestination, it speaks of God's sovereign involvement in certain things before they happen. He chooses in advance certain things to take place. For example, he predestined creation. Before God created the world, he decided to do it. - More

How Does a Sovereign God Love? a reply to Thomas Talbott - John Piper
My purpose here is simply to do what a pastor is supposed to do when "men rise from among our own number speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them" (Acts 20:30). I want to try to defend the doctrine of God's sovereign predestination against Talbott's criticisms and so "preserve the truth of the gospel" and magnify God's glorious grace. - More

On the Doctrine of Predestination - Thomas Chalmers
You have all heard of the doctrine of predestination. It has long been a settled article of our church. And there must be a sad deal of evasion and of unfair handling with particular passages, to get free of the evidence which we find for it in the Bible. - More

The Decrees of God - Arthur Allen
We frankly admit that the doctrine "That God hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass," goes beyond the powers of human interpretation. We willingly confess our ignorance concerning many mysteries that are involved in this doctrine. - More

What Fatalism Is - Benjiman B. Warfield
This is a sad state of mind that people fall into sometimes, in which they do not know the difference between God and Fate. - More

Election - G. H. Kersten
Election is the decree of God by which He in perfect sovereignty determined in which persons, known to Him by name in Christ, He has decided to magnify His mercy gloriously unto their salvation, and also by which means He Himself shall bring those persons to salvation. - More

Double Predestination - R. C. Sproul
"A horrible decree..." "Most ruthless statement..." "A terrible theological theory..." "An illegitimate inference of logic..." These and other similar epithets have been used frequently to articulate displeasure and revulsion at the Reformed doctrine of double predestination - More

Judicial Hardening - Romans 11:7-10 - Martin Lloyd-Jones
This is a passage that must be approached with reverence, with humility and with care. It does indeed hold us face to face with some of the most mysterious elements of biblical teaching, and of Christian teaching in particular. - More

The Place of Reprobation in the Preaching of the Gospel - Herman C. Hoeksema
If reprobation must be preached, what is its place? How must it be presented? What is its relation to election and to the whole of truth; and with what emphasis must it be presented? - More

God So Loved the World... - Homer C. Hoeksema
John 3:16 is probably the most frequently misinterpreted and misused verse in all of Holy Scripture. I refer to the fact, of course, that so often it is explained as meaning that God loves all men and that he gave his Son for all men. Nothing could be farther from the truth! - More

Some Thoughts on Predestination - Benjiman B. Warfield
This essay was originally published in The Christian Workers Magazine, Dec. 1916, pp. 265-267. - More

Election - Benjiman B. Warfield
This article was originally published in 1918 by the Presbyterian Board of Publication as a pamphlet of twenty-two pages. - More

An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism - Part II: Unconditional Election - Brian Schwertley
When the Bible discusses the predestination of those who are in Christ it speaks of the doctrine of election. The “elect” are those chosen by God. The verb “to elect” simply means to choose. The doctrine of election refers to “that eternal act of God whereby He, in His sovereign good pleasure, and on account of no foreseen merit in them, chooses a certain number of men to be the recipients of special grace and of eternal salvation.” - More

Absolute Predestination - Gilbert Beebe
The Old School or Primitive Baptists in former years have been very definitely identified and distinguished from all other religious or ecclesiastical organizations as Predestinarian Baptists, and as such have borne reproach and vituperation from those who hold more limited views of what we regard as the absolute and all pervading government of God over all beings, all events, and all worlds. - More

The Five Points of Calvinism - Part 3 - R. L. Dabney
In our Confession, Chapter III., Section iii., verses 4 and 7, we have this description of it: 3d. "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others foreordained to everlasting death." - More

A Letter from George Whitefield to the Rev. John Wesley - George Whitefield
I am very well aware what different effects publishing this letter against the dear Mr. Wesley's Sermon will produce. Many of my friends who are strenuous advocates for universal redemption will immediately be offended. Many who are zealous on the other side will be much rejoiced. They who are lukewarm on both sides and are carried away with carnal reasoning will wish this matter had never been brought under debate. - More