Footnotes

1. Ephesians 1:5 Another plainer exposition of the efficient cause, and also of eternal election, whereby God is saith to have chosen us in Christ, to wit, because it pleased him to appoint us out when we were not yet born, whom he would make to be his children by Jesus Christ: so that there is no reason here of our election to be sought, but in the free mercy of God, neither is faith which God foresaw, the cause of predestination, but the effect.
2. Ephesians 1:5 God respecteth nothing, either that present is, or that is to come, but himself only.
3. Ephesians 1:6 The uttermost and chiefest final cause is the glory of God the Father, who saveth us freely in his Son.
4. Ephesians 1:6 That as his bountiful goodness deserveth all praise, so also it should be set forth and published.
5. Ephesians 1:6 Another final cause more near, is our justification, while that he freely accounteth us for just in his Son.
6. Ephesians 1:7 An expounding of the material cause, how we are made acceptable to God in Christ, for it is he only, whose sacrifice by the mercy of God is imputed unto us, for the forgiveness of sin.