We admit that we cannot, with propriety, call upon all men to believe that they were eternally elected to salvation, because, in so doing, we should require the non-elect to believe a falsehood. Sinners are nowhere exhorted in the gospel to believe their election of God, nor is such an assurance essential to salvation. If it were, all those who deny the doctrine of election could not possibly be saved, and multitudes whom we gladly hail as brethren in Christ would have no prospect but eternal destruction! It is evident that the gospel calls upon men sincerely to repent of their sins, and cordially to embrace Christ; and that this is all that it requires as essential to salvation.

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