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quotes.push("&quot;In consequence of God's immutable will and infallible foreknowledge, whatever things come to pass, come to pass necessarily, though with respect to second causes and us men, many things are contingent, i.e., unexpected and seemingly accidental.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;As God knows nothing now which He did not know from all eternity, so He wills nothing now which He did not will from everlasting.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;The absolute will of God is the original spring and efficient cause of His people's salvation.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Since this absolute will of God is both immutable and omnipotent, we infer that the salvation of every one of the elect is most infallibly certain, and can by no means be prevented. This necessarily follows from what we have already asserted and proved concerning the Divine will, which, as it cannot be disappointed or made void, must undoubtedly secure the salvation of all whom God wills should be saved.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;God is infinitely, absolutely and unchangeably just.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;As Judge of all, He ratifies what He does as Lord by rendering to all according to their works, by punishing the wicked, and rewarding those whom it was His will to esteem righteous and to make holy.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Whatever things God wills or does are not willed and done by Him because they were in their own nature and previously to His willing them, just and right, or because, from their intrinsic fitness, He ought to will and do them; but they are therefore just, right and proper because He, who is holiness itself, wills and does them.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Conversion and salvation must, in the very nature of the case, be wrought and effected either by ourselves alone, or by ourselves and God together, or solely by God himself. The Pelagians were for the first. The Arminians are for the second. True believers are for the last.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Mercy is not in the Deity, as it is in us, a passion or affection, everything of that kind being incompatible with the purity, perfection, independency and unchangeableness of His nature; but when this attribute is predicated of Him, it only notes His free and eternal will or purpose of making some of the fallen race happy by delivering them from the guilt and dominion of sin, and communicating Himself to them in a way consistent with His own inviolable justice, truth and holiness. This seems to be the proper definition of mercy as it relates to the spiritual and eternal good of those who are its objects.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Since ungodly men, who are totally and finally destitute of Divine grace, cannot know what this mercy is, nor form any proper apprehensions of it, much less by faith embrace and rely upon it for themselves, and since daily experience, as well as the Scriptures of truth, teaches us that God doth not open the eyes of the reprobate as He doth the eyes of His elect, nor savingly enlighten their understandings, it evidently follows that His mercy was never, from the very first, designed for them, neither will it be applied to them; but, both in designation and application, is proper and peculiar to those only who are predestinated to life.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;We, with the Scriptures, assert that there is a predestination of some particular persons to life for the praise of the glory of Divine grace, and a predestination of other particular persons to death, which death of punishment they shall inevitably undergo, and that justly, on account of their sins.&quot;<br><strong>Jerome Zanchius</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.&quot;<br><strong>Charles Spurgeon</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by the thousands, by their myriads, e'er since that day when Christ first entered His glory. They come and yet never a stone has sprung in that mighty bridge. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them…trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.&quot;<br><strong>Charles Spurgeon</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.&quot;<br><strong>Bernard of Clairvaux</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Involuntary ignorance is not charged against you as a fault; but your fault is this---you neglect to inquire into the things you are ignorant of.&quot;<br><strong>Augustine</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!&quot;<br><strong>David Brainerd</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Arminianism has paved the way to atheism by despoiling the Divine Being, among other attributes, of his unlimited supremacy...of his invincible power, of his absolute independency...&quot;<br><strong>Augustus Toplady</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Calling upon them to make their election sure does not suppose it to be a precarious and conditional one, as I have shown in a preceding section; exhortations to sobriety, and vigilance against Satan, and cautions about falling, are pertinent to such who are absolutely elected to salvation; for, though Satan cannot devour them, he may greatly distress them.&quot;<br><strong>John Gill</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;For if we believe it to be true, that God foreknows and foreordains all things; that he can be neither deceived nor hindered in his prescience and predestination, and that nothing can take place but according to his will (which reason herself is compelled to confess); then, even according to the testimony of reason herself, there can be no free will - in man, in angel, or in any creature!&quot;<br><strong>Martin Luther</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;This, therefore, is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: that God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that he foresees, purposes, and does all things according to his immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, free will is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.&quot;<br><strong>Martin Luther</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;The purpose, then, of creation will be, not the production of God's internal and eternal excellence, but the display of his greatness to principalities, to powers, and to mere human beings.&quot;<br><strong>Gordon H. Clark</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.&quot;<br><strong>Jonathan Edwards</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.&quot;<br><strong>Jonathan Edwards</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different respects, wholly passive and wholly active.&quot;<br><strong>Jonathan Edwards</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Our wisdom ought to be nothing else than to embrace with humble teachableness, and at least without finding fault, whatever is taught in Sacred Scripture.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith; for faith consists in the knowledge of God and Christ, not in reverence for the Church.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;In that obedience which we have shown to be due the authority of rulers, we are always to make this exception, indeed, to observe it as primary, that such obedience is never to lead us away from obedience to him, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty their scepters ought to be submitted. And how absurd would it be that in satisfying men you should incur the displeasure of him for whose sake you obey men themselves! The Lord, therefore, is the King of Kings, who, when he has opened his sacred mouth, must alone be heard, before all and above all men; next to him we are subject to those men who are in authority over us, but only in him. If they command anything against him, let it go unesteemed.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may be denied to be good, but that we may not rely upon them, glory in them, or ascribe salvation to them.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father's will thus to exercise them so as to put his own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, his first-born, he follows this plan with all his children.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend upon believers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvation for those who respond to his call with upright life, because in those who are directed to the good by his Spirit he recognizes the only genuine insignia of his children.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate Him in His works, whereby He renders Himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates Himself.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain, under his eyes, so that to his knowledge there is nothing future or past, but all things are present. And they are present in such a way that he not only conceives them through ideas, as we have before us those things which our minds remember, but he truly looks upon them and discerns them as things placed before him. And this foreknowledge is extended throughout the universe to every creature. We call predestination God's eternal decree, by which he determined with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others. Therefore, as any man has been created to one or the other of these ends, we speak of him as predestined to life or death.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

quotes.push("&quot;However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.&quot;<br><strong>John Calvin</strong>");

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