God's motivation to saving His elect is Love for them only

"And the truth is, that God took up as vast a love unto us of himself at first as ever he hath borne us since, and all that Christ doth for us is but the expression of that love which was taken up originally in God's own heart. Thus we find that out of that love he gave Christ for us. So John 3:16, 'God so loved the world (of elect), that he gave his only begotten Son to die', etc. Yea, Christ's death was but a means to commend or set fortg that love of his unto us." -Thomas Goodwin, Christ Set Forth, Pg. 227

The Government that be are from God

"All civil power is immediately from God in its root; in that, 1st, God hath made man a social creature, and one who inclineth to be governed by man, then certainly he must have put this power in man's nature: so are we, by good reason, taught by Aristotle. 2d, God and nature intendeths the policy and peace of mankind, then must God and nature have given to mankind a power to compass this end; and this must be a power of government." - Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex, or The Law and the Prince, Pg. 1

Righteousness presupposes rationality

But in opposition to pietism, the contrast or even incompatibility between righteousness and rationality must be rejected. Far from conflicting with rationality, righteousness presupposes it. If righteousness requires obedience to God, this obedience depends on understanding God's precepts. Sin is disobedience; and whatever stronger denunciations of sin are appropriate, sin can also be denounced as irrational. Then again, animals, which cannot sin, also cannot be righteous - the reason being that they are non-rational. Hence the image of God, which distinguishes man from animals, is basically logic. - Gordon H. Clark, The Philosophy of Gordon H. Clark volume 7

"The most important part of creation was the creation of man. The heavens and the earth, grand as they are, are, as it were, nothing but the stage setting for the actors in the Divine Comedy. The reason is that while nature displays the manifold wisdom of God, man bears God's image. Dogs don't. I still love dogs, dachschunds and St. Bernards. But God gave man a reasonable or rational soul. Man can learn mathematics. Dogs can't. And I still love dogs, Doberman pinschers and Toy Manchesters.
Further, dogs, not to speak of trees and stones, cannot be righteous or holy. To them the Ten Commandments and the Biblical requirements for worship do not apply. But man was created with the law of God written in his heart." - Gordon H. Clark, What Do Presbyterians Believe?, Pg. 59 - 60

No morality without God

The question is what is the basis of morality? For the Christian the basis of morality is God and what He deems to be just. However, for those who do not believe in God the basis of morality would be something other than the Bible. Some teach that morality can be based on the greater good. In other words what is good is good for the whole of humanity not just part. The essential problems of such ideology is that this does not tell us what good is or what evil is. Like pragmatism, the greater good is that which can be anything. For instance, what if killing one million people helped solve world hunger? This evil would essentially be good because it would help solve an evil. The problem is obvious evil is used to alleviate another evil. This is why anyone who wants to live without the Bible alone cannot justify any action. Either they will say morality is based on the greater good or they will say morality is based on what man feels is good. Both concepts do not present to us any clear definition of what is evil or what is good.

"As the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky made clear, 'If there is no God, everything is permitted.' When a group of people adopt a worldview that has no place for a personal and moral God, we should not be surprised to find that the notions of good and evil lose their power. While atheists may acknowledge moral principles, they cannot provide good reasons for them." - Ronald H. Nash, The Meaning of History, pg. 127

The truth alone sanctifies

"The power that sanctifies us is no other power but the power of the cross of Christ; and the glory to which we are conformed by the Spirit in beholding it, is the glory that shines in Christ crucified; and we are raised up to walk in newness of life, no otherwise but together with Christ, and by the power of his resurrection, 'who was delivered for our offenses, and raised for our justification,' and by that blood of everlasting covenant, by virtue of which he came again from the dead: and therefore they seek sanctification where it is not to be found, who seek it not in this truth; and they seek it in vain, who seek it not by that belief of this truth, whereby we receive the remission of sins, and are justified." - John Glas, The Works of Mr. John Glas, pg. 146

What is wrong with history apart from divine written Revelation?

"The history of philosophy began with naturalism, and so far as this volume is concerned it ends with naturalism. The Presocratic naturualism dissolved into Sophism, from which a metaphysics arose; and the metaphysics lost itself in a mystic trance. Then under the influence of an alien source, Western Europe appealed to a divine revelation. In the sixteenth century one group put their complete trust in revelation, while another development turned to unaided human reason. This latter movement has now abandoned its metaphysics, its rationalism, and even the fixed truths of naturalistic science. It has dissolved into Sophism. Does this mean that philosophers and cultural epochs are nothing but children who pay their fare to take another ride on the merry-go-round? Is this Nietzsche's eternal recurrence? Or, could it be that a choice must be made between skeptical futility and a word from God? To answer this question for himself, the student, since he cannot ride very fast into the future and discover what a new age will do, might begin by turning back to the first page and pondering the whole thing over again. This will at least stave off suicide for a few days more." - Gordon H. Clark, Thales to Dewey, Pg. 533 - 534

The whole point of Clark's work comes down to this that Philosophy unaided by Divine Revelation knows nothing. We see the fact that philosophy without the Bible alone (The word of God alone) conjures up several different ideas and views as time goes on. These ideas, to say the least, are wrong. This does not mean that no human being apart from Scripture alone cannot know some things that are helpful; however, it does mean that man apart from Scripture alone cannot know the truth. Truth is the reality of the world, truth is eternal, truth is God. It is God who is truth, who is eternal. We know God by Scripture alone.

Gordon Clark on G.I. Williamson

"The present theological climate, however, is inimical to clear thinking. Intellectualism is in disgrace. Even such a conservative, orthodox theologian as G.I. Williamson, though he does not deny the section of the Confession just quoted, passes over the matter of deduction in one sentence. He then immediately tries to restrict its application by saying, 'The Mosiac Law, for example, is not expressed by way of abstract principles. Moses declared the law in terms of concrete instances.' This is ridiculous. The Ten Commandments do not include a single concrete case. They forbid all murder: They mention neither Cain nor Lamech. They condemn all adultery: They do not specify any single instance. They prohibit all theft: Rachel's particular example is missing. Of course, Williamson is not consistently opposed to deductive logic. He rather represents those conservative theologians who have not completely escaped the influence of contemporary irrationalism." - Gordon H. Clark, What is Saving Faith?, Pg. 83

Aristotle and Happiness

Aristotle is wrong about happiness. I don't care that he is a prominent philosopher. Aristotle teaches in "The Nicomachean Ethics" that happiness is the virtuous activity of the soul and therefore the happy man is one who continues in life until death in this activity. The Bible alone, however, is God's word and it says that "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works," - Romans 4. The Christian is made happy by knowing and accepting the gospel as the only means of righteousness before God. As the Westminster Catechism says that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. We do so by knowing and believing the truth. Proverbs says, 13Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. James teaches us that the wisdom of the Christian is from above. And Paul, in 1 Corinthians, says, that God in His wisdom made the world and everything in it. And by God's wisdom the world did not know God. But rather the cross is the wisdom of God.