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Chap. X.

Of Effectuall Calling.

ALll thoſe whom God hath predeſtinated unto life, and thoſe onely, he is pleaſed in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call^[1], by his Word and Spirit^[2], out of that ſtate of ſin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and ſalvation by Jeſus Chriſt^[3]; inlightning their mindes, ſpiritually and ſavingly to underſtand the things of God^[4]; taking away their heart of ſtone, and giving unto them an heart of fleſh^[5]; renewing their wills, and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good^[6], and effectually drawing them to Jeſus Chriſt^[7]: yet ſo, as they come moſt freely, being made willing by his grace^[8]

II. This effectuall Call is of Gods free, and ſpeciall grace alone, not from any thing at all foreſeen in man^[9], who is altogether paſſive therein, untill being quickned and renewed by the holy Spirit^[10], he is thereby inabled to anſwer this Call and to imbrace the grace offered, and conveyed in it^[11].

III. Elect infants dying in infancy, are regenerated, and ſaved by Chriſt, through the Spirit^[12], who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaſeth^[13]: So alſo are all other elect perſons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the Miniſtry of the Word^[14].

IV. Others, not elcted, although they may be cal-

1. Rom. 8. 30
   Rom. 11. 7
   Eph. 1. 10, 11
2. 2 Theſ. 2. 13, 14
   2 Cor 3. 3, 6
3. Rom. 8. 2
   Epheſ. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
   2 Tim. 1. 9, 10
4. Acts 26. 18
   1 Cor. 2. 10, 12
   Eph. 1. 17, 18
5. Ezek. 36. 26
6. Ezek. 11. 19
   Phil. 2. 13.
   Deut. 30. 6
   Ezek. 36. 27
7. Eph. 1. 19
   Ioh. 6. 44, 45
8. Cant. 1. 4
   Pſal. 110. 3.
   Iohn 6. 37
   Rom 6. 16, 17, 18
9. 2 Tim. 1. 9
   Tit. 3. 4, 5
   Eph. 2. 4, 5, 8, 9
   Rom. 9. 11
10. 1 Cor. 2. 14
    Rom. 8. 7
    Epheſ. 2. 5.
11. Iohn 6. 37
    Ezek. 36. 27
    Ioh. 5. 25
12. Luk. 18. 15, 16. & Acts 2. 38, 39. & Iohn 3. 3, 5. & I Ioh. 5. 12. & Rom. 8. 9. compared.
13. Iohn 3. 8.
14. I Iohn 5. 12.
    Acts 4. 12.