Read the following excerpt from john calvin's institutes of the christian religion. then answer the following question:

the covenant of life is not preached equally to all, and among those to whom it is preached, does not always meet with the same reception. this diversity displays the unsearchable depth of the divine judgment, and is without doubt subordinate to god's purpose of eternal election. but if it is plainly owing to the mere pleasure of god that salvation is spontaneously offered to some, while others have no access to it…—public domain