All mankind being thus fallen, and become altogether dead in sins and trespasses, and subject to the eternal wrath of the great God by transgression; yet the elect, which God has¹ loved with an everlasting love, are² redeemed, quickened, and saved, not by themselves, neither by their own works, lest any man should boast himself, but wholly and only by God of³ His free grace and mercy through Jesus Christ, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, that as it is written, he that rejoices, let him rejoice in the Lord.

1. Jeremiah 31:2 ↩︎
2. Genesis 3:15; Acts 13:38; Ephesians 1:3, 7; 2:4, 9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9 ↩︎
3. Jeremiah 9: 23–24; 1 Corinthians 1:30–31; 2 Corinthians 5:21  ↩︎