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Of Effectual Calling.

ALL those whom God hath predestinated

unto life, and those only he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time effectually to call a by his word and spirit, b out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ, c enlighténing their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God, d taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh. e Renewing their wills and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good,f and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ: g yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace. /

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a Rom. viii, 30, and xi, 7. Eph. i, 10, II Thess. ii, 13, 14. II Cor. iii, 3, 6. viii, 7. Eph. ii, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. II Tim. i, 9, 10. d Acts xxvi, 18. Col. ii, 10, 11. Eph. i, 17, 18. e Ezek. xxxvi, 26. ƒ Ezek. xi. 19. Phil. ii, 13. Deut. xxx, 6. Ezek. xxxvi, 27. John vi, 44, 45. h Cant. i, 4.

g Eph. i, 19.

Psal. cx, 3. John

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This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from any thing at all foreseen in man, i who is altogether passive therein,

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until being quickened and renewed by the holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this cali, and to embrace the grace offered and con veyed in it. 7.

2 II Tim. i, 9.

9. Rom. ix, 11.

Tit. iii, 4, 5. Eph. ii, 4, 5, 8, k1 Cor. ii, 14. Rom. vii. 7. Eph. ii, 5. John vi, 37. Ezek. xxxvi, 27. Rom. vii, 9. John v. 25.

III.

Elect infants dying in infancy, are regenera. ted and saved by Christ, m who worketh when and where, and how he pleaseth; n so also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word. o

m Luke xviii, 15, 16, and Acts ii, 38, 39, and Johu iii, 5, and 1 John v. 22, compared Rom. viii, 9. n Jolin iii, & I John v. 12. Acts iv,

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Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the word, and may have some, common operations of the Spirit, g yet not being effectually drawn by the Father they neither do nor can come unto Christ, nd therefore cannot be saved; r much less can men not professing the Christian Religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the law of that religion

they do profess; s and to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be der

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Mat. xxii, 14,

21. Heb. vi, 4, 5. vili, 24. s Acts iv,

7 Mat. vii, 22, and xiii, 20, r John vi, 64, 65, 66, and 12. John xiv, 6. Eph. ii,

12. John iv, 22, and xvii, 3. 7 lì John ix, 19, 11, I Cor. xvi, 22. Gal. i, 6, 7, 8.

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CHAP. XI,

Of Justification,

HOSE whom God effectually calleth. he also freely justifieth, a not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins and by accounting and accepting their persons os righteous not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor by imputing Faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness, but by imputing Christ's active obedience to the whole law, and passive obedience in his sufferings and death, for their whole and sole righteousness, 6 they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God. c

a Rom. viii, 30, and iii, 24,

b Rom. iv, 4,

5, 6, 7, 8. II Cor. v, 19, 21. Rom. iii, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28. Tit. iii, 5, 7. Eph. i, 7. Jer. xxiii, 6. I Cor. ii, 30, 31. Rom. v, 17, 18, 19.

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Acts x, 44. Gal. ii, 16. Phil. iii, 9. Acts xiii, 38, 39. Eph. ii, 7, 8.

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Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ, and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; d yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead Faith, but wor keth by love. e

d John, i, 12. Rom. iii, 20, and v, 1. ii, 17, 22, 26. Gal. v, 6.

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Christ by his obedience and death did fully discharge the debt of all those that are justified, and did by the sacrifice of himself in the blood of his Cross, undergoing in their stead the penalty due unto them, make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in their behalff Yet inasmuch as he was given by the father for them, g and his obedience and satis faction accepted in their stead, h and both freely, not for any thing in them. their justification is only of free grace, i that both the exact jus tice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners. k

f Rom. v, 8, 9, 10, 19. I Tim. ii, 5, 6. Heb.

, 10, 14. Dan. ix, 24 26. Isa. liii, 4 5, 6, 10. 11. 12. g Rom. viii. 32. h II Cor- v, 21. Mat. ii 17. Eph. v, 2 i Rom. iii, 24. Eph. i, 7. Rom. iii, 26 Eph. ii, 7.

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IV.

God did from all eternity agree to justify all the elect, and Christ did in the fulness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their justi fication: m nevertheless they are not justified personally until the holy Spirit doth in due time actually apply Christ unto them. n

/ Gal. iii, 8 I Pet. i, 2, 19, 20 Rom. viii, 30. m Gal. iv, 4. I Tim, ii. 6. Rom. v. 25. n Col. i, 21, 22. Gal. ii, 16. Tit. ii, 4, 5, 6,

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God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified; o and although they can ne ver fall from that state of justification, yet they may by their sins fall under God's fatherly displeasure and in that condition they have not usually the light of his countenance restared unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance. ¶

o Mat. vi, 12. I John i, 7, 9, and ii, 1, 2. ↑ Luke xii, 32. John x. 28. Heb. X, 14. 9 Psal lxxxix, 31, 32, 38, and li, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and xxxii, 5. Mat, xxvi, 75. I Cor. xi, 80, 81, 32. Luke i, 20.

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