q.d. God's election is not of Jacob s, or of any other man s, willing or running; i.e. it is not from his good desires or deeds, his good inclinations or actions, or from the foresight thereof; but it is of God's mere mercy and good pleasure. This text wounds Pelagianism under the fifth rib. Nec volenti, nec volanti, was the motto of a noble personage.
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Romans 9:16
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.