CHAP. X. Of Effectual Calling.
ALL those whom God hath prede∣stinated unto Life, and those only he is pleased in his appointed and ac∣cepted time effectually to call by his
A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.
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- A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.
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- Congregational Churches in England.
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- London :: printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry,
- 1688.
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"A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52593.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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Word and Spirit, out of that state of Sin and Death in which they are by Nature, to Grace and Salvation by Je∣sus Christ, inlightning their Minds spi∣ritually and savingly to understand the things of God, taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh, renewing their Wills, and by his Almighty Power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; yet so, as they come most freely, being made willing by his Grace.
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This Effectual Call is of Gods free and special Grace alone, not from any thing at all foreseen in Man, who is al∣together passive therein, untill being quickned and renewed by the Holy Spirit he is thereby enabled to answer this Call, and to embrace the Grace of∣fered and conveyed in it.
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III.
Elect Infants dying in Infancy, are re∣generated and saved by Christ, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth: so also are all other elect per∣sons who are uncapable of being out∣wardly called by the Ministry of the Word.
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Others not elected, although they may be called by the Ministry of the Word, and may have some common ope∣rations of the Spirit, yet not being effe∣ctually drawn by the Father, they nei∣ther do nor can come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved; much less can men not professing the Christian Re∣ligion, be saved in any other way what∣soever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the Light of Nature, and the Law of that Religi∣on
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they do profess: And to assert and maintain that they may, is very perni∣cious, and to be detested.