chosen according to the design of God’s call, is fixed and definite with God.64 But it is as much against holy religion to deny this as it is to gainsay grace itself.65 For it is no secret, but evident to all who open their eyes, how for so many centuries countless thousands of men were left to their errors and impieties and died without any knowledge of the true God. This is shown, in the Acts of the Apostles, by the words of Barnabas and Paul, who told the Lycaonians: Ye men, why do ye do these