power” (1 Cor. 2:4). God’s moral and spiritual and personal method in the gospel thus includes a moral demonstration within the soul by the Holy Spirit of God. Let us now restate the doctrine of election in the light of these truths. Election is not to be thought of as a bare choice of so many human units by God’s action independently of man’s free choice and the human means employed. God elects men to respond freely. He elects men to preach persuasively and to witness convincingly. He elects to
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