Thesium de vita aeterna et eius haeredibus decades X

7. Therefore, the foreseen good purpose of man must not be understood by this Pelagian opinion, since unless God has proposed to confer His gifts upon us, He can foresee no good in us at all.
8. Moreover, God predestined us (if we look at ourselves) so that we might be conformed to the image of His Son: so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. Rom. 8, verse 29.
9. But if we look at the ultimate end, He predestined us to eternal life, to the praise of His glorious grace, by which He freely made us pleasing to Himself in that Beloved One. Eph. 1, verse 6.
10. We certainly conclude that the blessing of our predestination to life is immutable, because we were predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things from the counsel of His will (Eph. 1, verse 11), and with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. James 1, verse 17.

Series of God’s works. 1. Special and efficacious Vocation is subordinated to predestination to eternal life. Rom. 8, verse 30.
Causes. 2. Moreover, He calls us with a holy calling, not from our works, but from His own purpose and grace, etc. 2 Tim. 1, verse 9.
3. The Father, drawing us to Himself by the Spirit and giving us to the Son, whence He calls most efficaciously: whence indeed, through the faithful ministers of the divine Word and Sacraments, He invites us. John 6, Matt. 22.
4. He wills that we walk in a manner worthy of the vocation by which we were called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in charity, Eph. 4, verses 1 & 2.
5. Hence it is clear that not even the privilege of Vocation, by which we are separated from the world, provides a license to sin, as some imagine.
6. It is fitting that we accept Christ's saying, "Many are called, few are chosen," regarding the external and common vocation, which, not being efficacious in all, results in testimony against many. Matt. 22, verse 14.
7. Concerning the same vocation it was said, that is: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the Prophets and stones those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not. Let no one wrongly demand free will from a pumice stone, or from a soul-less man, and contend that it is established by that saying.