John Piper - Are There Two Wills in God?

Are there Two Wills in God? - Divine Election and God's Desire for All to Be Saved

My aim here is to show from Scripture that the simultaneous existence of God's will for "all persons to be saved" (1 Tim. 2:4) and his will to elect unconditionally those who will actually be saved is not a sign of divine schizophrenia or exegetical confusion. A corresponding aim is to show that unconditional election therefore does not contradict biblical expressions of God's compassion for all people, and does not nullify sincere offers of salvation to everyone who is lost among all the peoples of the world.

Charles Spurgeon - Spurgeon on the Doctrines of Grace

Spurgeon on the Doctrines of Grace

“There is no soul living who holds more firmly to the doctrines of grace than I do, and if any man asks me whether I am ashamed to be called a Calvinist, I answer – I wish to be called nothing but a Christian; but if you ask me, do I hold the doctrinal views which were held by John Calvin, I reply, I do in the main hold them, and rejoice to avow it. But far be it from me even to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views.”

Jonathan Edwards - The Religious Affections

The Religious Affections - Counterfeit Love

“Persons may seem to have love to God and Christ, yea, to have very strong and violent affections of this nature, and yet have no grace. For this was evidently the case with many graceless Jews, such as cried Jesus up so high, following him day and night, without meat, drink, or sleep; such as said, ‘Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest,’ and cried, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David.’ The apostle seems to intimate that there were many in his days who had a counterfeit love to Christ in Ephesians 6:24: ‘Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus in sincerity.’ The last word, in the original, signifies incorruption; which shows that the apostle was sensible that there were many who had a kind of love to Christ, whose love was not pure and spiritual. So also Christian love to the people of God may be counterfeited. It is evident by the Scripture, that there may be strong affections of this kind without saving grace; as there were in the Galatians towards the Apostle Paul, when they were ready to pluck out their eyes and give them to him; although the apostle expresses his fear that their affections were come to nothing, and that he had bestowed upon them labour in vain, Galatians 4:11, 15.”

A.W. Pink - The Sovereignty of God - The Holy Spirit in Salvation

The Sovereignty of God - The Holy Spirit in Salvation

Since the Holy Spirit is one of the three Persons in the blessed Trinity, it necessarily follows that He is in full sympathy with the will and design of the other Persons of the Godhead. The eternal purpose of the Father in election, the limited design in the death of the Son, and the restricted scope of the Holy Spirit’s operations are in perfect accord. If the Father chose certain ones before the foundation of the world and gave them to His Son, and if it was for them that Christ gave Himself a ransom, then the Holy Spirit is not now working to “bring the world to Christ.” The mission of the Holy Spirit in the world today is to apply the benefits of Christ’s redemptive sacrifice….

The new birth is solely the work of God the Spirit and man has no part or lot in it….  “It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing” (John 6:63). But the Spirit does not “quicken” everybody—why? The usual answer returned to this question is, Because everybody does not trust in Christ. It is supposed that the Holy Spirit quickens only those who believe. But this is to put the cart before the horse. Faith is not the cause of the new birth, but the consequence of it. This ought not to need arguing. Faith (in God) is an exotic, something that is not native to the human heart. If faith were a natural product of the human heart, the exercise of a principle common to human nature, it would never have been written, “All men have not faith” (2 Thess. 3:2). Faith is a spiritual grace, the fruit of the spiritual nature, and because the unregenerate are spiritually dead—”dead in trespasses and sins”—then it follows that faith from them is impossible, for a dead man cannot believe anything.