Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Everywhere the purpose or good pleasure means God’s antecedent will. Yet there is another will. For God’s first [or antecedent] will is that sinners should not perish. His second or consequent will is that those who become evil should perish. Hence he does not chastise them from necessity but due to their own willing. .
