3.1 God ordains everything that happens, but isn’t responsible for sin, and people are not puppets, and what they do matters.
3.2 God knows the future exhaustively and unconditionally, but his decree is not based on his foresight.
3.3 God decrees some people and angels to eternal life and others to eternal death, for the display of his glory.
[God endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction … in order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory ~ Romans 9:22-23]
[In love, he predestined us … according to the kind intention of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace ~ Ephesians 1:4. The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, even the wicked for the day of destruction ~ Proverbs 16:4]
3.4 God’s predestination and foreordination is particular, unchangeable, certain and definite.
3.5 God’s predestination or choosing unto life, is in Christ, unconditional, and doxological.
3.6 God ordains both the end and the means of salvation for the elect.
3.7 God passed over the rest and ordained them to just punishment for their sin.
3.8 The doctrine of predestination is to be handled carefully, and is designed to promote the assurance of believers, the praise of God, as well as humility, diligence and comfort.