Election.

THERE is great comfort in the doctrine of election. It tells me that my history is a very old one. It did not begin when I believed.
That was an event far down in the course of my history, which began before the worlds were framed.
Counsels concerning me constituted the first great fact. My foundation is there, be my faith weak or strong. My origin is divine, and venerable, and holy; and this foundation is immovable (Eph. 1:44According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (Ephesians 1:4)). Extracted.