But if God has not predestined all men to conform to the image of His Son, who is the model and exemplar of the elect, it is because in this God acts through the simplest ways in relation to His intentions, which all favor His glory; it is because God is a universal cause and must not act as do particular causes, which have particular volitions for everything they do; it is because His wisdom, which in this is only an abyss for us, would have it so.