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