Never confuse election with partiality. Partiality is favoritism that is corrupted by a willingness to pervert justice for the sake of the favored few; election chooses certain people out of God’s free decision and nothing else, and even then justice is not perverted: hence the cross.
Don Carson
Man' s chief end
Man' s chief end
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our
souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely
better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers,
husbands, wives. or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but
shadows; but God is the substance. They are but scattered beams, but God is the
sun. These are but streams, but God is the ocean. Therefore it becomes us to
spend this life only as a journey toward heaven, as it becomes us to
make the seeking of our highest end and proper good, the whole work of our
lives; to which we should subordinate all other concerns of life. Why should we
labour for, or set our hearts on anything else, but that which is our proper
end, and true happiness?
Jonathan Edwards
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