Unto Good Works

If it is God's will to sanctify a person, he will become holy in consequence of this. God does not choose anyone unto salvation because of his good works, rather He chooses them unto good works.

 

Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian's Reasonable Service, ed. Joel R. Beeke, trans. Bartel Elshout, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 1992), 115.