"By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestined to life or to death."

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, Chapter 21, first published in Latin 1536, greatly expanded in final edition of 1559. Translated into English by Henry Beveridge, 1845.