MacArthur is (was!) recorded in a video with text here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=us
This is the from the Google cache of a conference where he was apparently a keynote speaker. Here he says,
"Sovereign election has already determined who will constitute the redeemed church. That was determined in the counsels of the Trinity before time began."
It is a common term used quite a bit by Evangelicals and others:
The Archbishop of Canterbury:
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1968
Wayne Gruden (a popular writer and theologian):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=us
J.C. Ryle (Victorian Era Bishop of Liverpool whose books are still popular):
http://rediscoveringthebible.com/Ryle14vv12-17.pdf
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