The one who decreed the salvation of his elect also decreed to work faith in them (2 Thess. 2:13). “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isa. 46:10): but that could not be, if his counsel depended upon a condition which might not be performed. But God “worketh all things after the counsel of his own will” (Eph. 1:11).
