nitely greater than the day which brings us forth to this world, with all its suffering and dangers."
Here, then, dear Christian, is another motive which should induce you to serve God, another link in that chain which should bind you irrevocably to your Creator.
CHAPTER VI.
THE SIXTH MOTIVE WHICH OBLIGES US TO PRACTISE VIRTUE: THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE BENEFIT OF ELECTION.
TO all the benefits which we have just enumerated we must add that of election, or predestination, which belongs to those whom God has chosen from all eternity to be partakers of His glory. The Apostle, in his Epistle to the Ephesians,[1] thus gives thanks, in his own name and that of the elect, for this inestimable benefit: "Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places, in Christ; as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in His sight, in charity; Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto Himself, according to the purpose of His will." The Royal Prophet thus extols this same bene-
- ↑ Eph. i. 3, 4, 5.
