Total Depravity:
Justification could never be earned on the grounds of Jewishness nor on the grounds of keeping the Law;
Unconditional Election:
God therefore elected to grant salvation on a different basis that would not be conditional upon Jewishness nor conditional upon observance of the Law;
Limited Atonement:
The basis upon which God elected to grant salvation meant that a person would not automatically be saved just because of his Jewishness;
Irresitable Grace:
God chose to save both Jew and Gentile - by His grace! Who can resist (dispute) the graciousness - the justice, equality & mercifulness - of that plan.
Perseverence of Saints:
Seeing it was always legitimately God's plan to save both Jews and Gentiles by the grace of Jesus Christ alone - rather than on the basis of Jewishness or on the basis of keeping the Law - believers who had chosen not to succumb to the insistences of the Judaizers could therefore rest assured that this confidence of theirs would not disppoint them in that Great and final Day. The believers' confidence was founded in the legitimacy of the plan which from the beginning was God's own: to save by His grace (rather than by Jewishness nor by the observance of the Law).
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