[a]Who hath predestinated us, to be adopted through Jesus Christ [b]in himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:5 Another plainer exposition of the efficient cause, and also of eternal election, whereby God is saith to have chosen us in Christ, to wit, because it pleased him to appoint us out when we were not yet born, whom he would make to be his children by Jesus Christ: so that there is no reason here of our election to be sought, but in the free mercy of God, neither is faith which God foresaw, the cause of predestination, but the effect.
  2. Ephesians 1:5 God respecteth nothing, either that present is, or that is to come, but himself only.

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