Footnotes

1. Romans 9:7 The first proof is taken from the example of Abraham’s own house, wherein Isaac only was counted the son, and that by God’s ordinance: although that Ishmael also was born of Abraham, and circumcised before Isaac.
2. Romans 9:7 Isaac shall be thy true and natural son, and therefore heir of thy blessing.
3. Romans 9:8 A general application of the former proof or example.
4. Romans 9:8 Which are born of Abraham by the course of nature.
5. Romans 9:8 Which are born by virtue of the promise.
6. Romans 9:9 A reason of that application: Because that Isaac was born by the virtue of the promise, and therefore he was not chosen, nay he was not at all, but by the free will of God: whereby it followeth that the promise is the fountain of predestination, and not the flesh from which promise the particular election proceedeth: that is, that the elect be born elect: and not that they be first born and then afterward elected, in respect of God who doth predestinate.