John Wesley and Predestination

“With regard to…Unconditional Election, I believe,

That God, before the foundation of the world, did unconditionally elect certain persons to do certain works, as Paul to preach the gospel:

that He has unconditionally elected some nations to receive peculiar privileges, the Jewish nation in particular:

that He has unconditionally elected some nations to hear the gospel…

that He has unconditionally elected some persons to peculiar advantages, both with regard to temporal and spiritual things:

And I do not deny (though I cannot prove that it is so), that He has unconditionally elected some persons [thence eminently styled ‘the Elect’] to eternal glory.

But I cannot believe, That all those who are not thus elected to glory must perish everlastingly;

or That there is one soul on earth who has not, [nor] ever had a possibility of escaping eternal damnation.”

John Wesley’s eirenicon with Whitefield, August 24, 1743.