A Study of Question 20 in the Shorter Catechism - Q: Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? -
A: God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a Covenant of Grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of Salvation by a Redeemer.