The Particular Selective Love of God

From Jonathan Edwards' sermon on 1 Pet. 2:9-10, Christians are a Chosen Generation, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation, a Peculiar People:

The electing love of God is singly of every particular person. Some deny a particular election, and say that there is no other election than a general determination, that all that believe and obey shall be saved. Some also own no more than an absolute election of nations. But God did from all eternity singly and distinctly choose, and set his love upon, every particular person that ever believes, as is evident from Gal. 2:20: 'Who loved me and gave himself for me' (Works, vol. 2, Hickman ed., 938).

You'll perhaps notice that Edwards addresses here the same Arminian arguments thrown up today, which still blow away like chaff before the mighty rushing wind of the Word of God.