That saving grace presupposes the Fall, and that men as sinners are the objects of it, appears from _John 15:19_—“_If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you_”; _Rom. 11:5‐7_—“_Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened._” _Eph. 1:4‐6_—“_even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved_”; _1 Pet. 1:2_—elect, “_according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus: Grace to you and peace be multiplied._” That condemnation is not an act of sovereignty, but of justice, appears from _Rom. 2:6‐9_—“_who will render to every man according to his works ... wrath and indignation ... upon every soul of man that worketh evil_”; _2 Thess. 1:6‐9_—“_a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you ... rendering vengeance to them that know not God and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: who shall suffer punishment._” Particular persons are elected, not to have Christ die for them, but to have special influences of the Spirit bestowed upon them. (_d_) Those Sublapsarians who hold to the Anselmic view of a limited Atonement, make the decrees 3. and 4., just mentioned, exchange places,—the decree of election thus preceding the decree to provide redemption. The Scriptural reasons for preferring the order here given have been already indicated in our treatment of the extent of the Atonement (pages 771‐773).