refer generally to God’s plan for ordering all things. The divine decrees have in view the creation of all things, their maintenance, and their direction by God. The decrees also have in view the salvation of some people, and either passing by, or positively condemning, others for damnation. The term “election” is employed broadly by historians, sometimes synonymously with “the decrees,” but certainly not with any regularity. Indeed, an interminable number of taxonomies obtain in the literature,