What is "to make one's election"

Election \E*lec"tion\, n. [F. ['e]lection, L. electio, fr. eligere to choose out. See Elect, a.]

1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.

2. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

   Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
   --J. Adams.

3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. ``By his own election led to ill.''
   --Daniel.

4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.]

   To use men with much difference and election is good.
   --Bacon.

5. (Theol.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the ``five points'' of Calvinism.

   There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
   --Rom. xi. 5.

6. (Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

7. Those who are elected. [Obs.]

   The election hath obtained it.
   --Rom. xi. 7.

   To contest an election. See under Contest.

   To make one's election, to choose.

   He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.
   --Fitzed. Hall.