A20. God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life₁, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.₂

1. Eph 1:4
2. Rom 3:20-22; Gal 3:21-22

For further study see:

1. WSC 14: What is sin?
2. WSC 15: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
3. WSC 18: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
4. WSC 84: What doth every sin deserve?
5. WSC 85: What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
6. WLC 24: What is sin?
7. WLC 25: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
8. WLC 26: How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
9. WCF CHAPTER 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
10. Dr. Dennis Prutow explains WSC 20:
    
11. Dr. Dennis Prutow discusses “limited atonement” (also called “particular or definite redemption”) in light of WSC 20:
    

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