CHAPTER X
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, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a 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.
Rom. viii. 30; Rom. xi. 7; Eph. i. 10, 11; 2 Thess. ii. 13, 14; 2 Cor. iii. 3, 6; Rom. viii. 2; Eph. ii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 2 Tim. i. 9, 10; Acts xxvi. 18; 1 Cor. ii. 10, 12; Eph. i. 17, 18; Ezek. xxxvi. 26; Ezek. xi. 19; Phil. ii. 13; Deut. xxx. 6; Ezek. xxxvi. 27; Eph. i. 19; John vi. 44, 45; Cant. i. 4; Ps. cx. 3; John vi. 37; Rom. vi. 16, 17, 18.
II. This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, who is altogether passive therein, until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.
2 Tim. i. 9; ***. iii. 4, 5; Eph. ii. 4, 5, 8. 9; Rom. ix. 11, 1 Cor. ii. 14; Rom. viii. 7; Eph. ii. 5, John vi. 37; Ezek. xxxvi. 27; John v. 25.
III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how He pleaseth: so also, are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.
Luke xviii. 15, 16, and Acts ii. 38, 39 and John iii. 3, 5 and 1 John v. 12 and Rom. viii. 9 compared; John iii. 8; 1 John v. 12; Acts iv. 12.
IV. Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: 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. And, to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.
Matt. xxii. 14; Matt. vii. 22; Matt. xiii. 20, 21; Heb. vi. 4, 5; John vi. 64, 65, 66; John viii. 24; Acts iv. 12; John xiv. 6; Eph. ii. 12; John iv. 22; John xvii. 3; 2 John ver. 9, 10, 11; 1 Cor. xvi 22; Gal. i. 6, 7, 8.
CHAPTER XI
Of Justification
Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous, not for anything 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 the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.
Rom. viii. 30; Rom. iii. 24; Rom. iv. 5, 6, 7, 8; 2 Cor. v. 19, 21; Rom. iii. 22, 24, 25, 27, 28; ***. iii. 5, 7; Eph. i. 7; Jer. xxiii. 6; 1 Cor. i. 30, 31; Rom. v. 17, 18. 19; Acts x. 43; Gal. ii. 16; Phil. iii. 9; Acts xiii. 38, 39; Eph. ii. 7, 8.
II. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.
John i. 12; Rom. iii. 28; Rom. v. 1; James. ii. 17, 22, 26; Gal. v. 6.
III. Christ, by His obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to His Father's justice in their behalf. Yet, inasmuch as He was given by the Father for them; and His obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead; and both freely, not for anything in them; their justification is only of free grace; that both the exact justice, and rich grace of God, might be glorified in the justification of sinners.
Rom. v. 8, 9, 10, 19; 1 Tim. ii. 5, 6; Heb. x. 10, 14; Dan. ix. 24, 26; Isa. liii. 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12; Rom. viii. 32; 2 Cor. v. 21; Matt. iii. 17; Eph. v. 2; Rom. iii. 24; Eph. i. 7; Rom. iii. 26; Eph. ii. 7.
IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fulness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification: nevertheless, they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.
Gal. iii. 8; 1 Pet. i. 2, 19, 20, Rom. viii. 30; Gal. iv. 4; 1 Tim. ii. 6; Rom. iv. 25; Col. i. 21, 22; Gal. ii. 16; ***. iii. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
V. God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified; and, although they can never fall from the state of justification; yet they may, by their sins, fall under God's fatherly displeasure, and not have the light of His countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance.
Matt. vi. 12; 1 John i. 7, 9: 1 John ii. 1, 2; Luke xxii. 32; John x. 28; Heb. x. 14; Ps. lxxxix. 31, 32, 33; Ps. li. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; Ps. xxxii 5; Matt. xxvi. 75; 1 Cor. xi. 30, 32; Luke i. 20.
VI. The justification of believers under the old testament was, in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers under the new testament.
Gal. iii. 9, 13, 14; Rom. iv. 22, 23, 24; Heb. xiii. 8.
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, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a 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.
Rom. viii. 30; Rom. xi. 7; Eph. i. 10, 11; 2 Thess. ii. 13, 14; 2 Cor. iii. 3, 6; Rom. viii. 2; Eph. ii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 2 Tim. i. 9, 10; Acts xxvi. 18; 1 Cor. ii. 10, 12; Eph. i. 17, 18; Ezek. xxxvi. 26; Ezek. xi. 19; Phil. ii. 13; Deut. xxx. 6; Ezek. xxxvi. 27; Eph. i. 19; John vi. 44, 45; Cant. i. 4; Ps. cx. 3; John vi. 37; Rom. vi. 16, 17, 18.
II. This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, who is altogether passive therein, until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.
2 Tim. i. 9; ***. iii. 4, 5; Eph. ii. 4, 5, 8. 9; Rom. ix. 11, 1 Cor. ii. 14; Rom. viii. 7; Eph. ii. 5, John vi. 37; Ezek. xxxvi. 27; John v. 25.
III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how He pleaseth: so also, are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.
Luke xviii. 15, 16, and Acts ii. 38, 39 and John iii. 3, 5 and 1 John v. 12 and Rom. viii. 9 compared; John iii. 8; 1 John v. 12; Acts iv. 12.
IV. Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: 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. And, to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.
Matt. xxii. 14; Matt. vii. 22; Matt. xiii. 20, 21; Heb. vi. 4, 5; John vi. 64, 65, 66; John viii. 24; Acts iv. 12; John xiv. 6; Eph. ii. 12; John iv. 22; John xvii. 3; 2 John ver. 9, 10, 11; 1 Cor. xvi 22; Gal. i. 6, 7, 8.
CHAPTER XI
Of Justification
Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous, not for anything 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 the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.
Rom. viii. 30; Rom. iii. 24; Rom. iv. 5, 6, 7, 8; 2 Cor. v. 19, 21; Rom. iii. 22, 24, 25, 27, 28; ***. iii. 5, 7; Eph. i. 7; Jer. xxiii. 6; 1 Cor. i. 30, 31; Rom. v. 17, 18. 19; Acts x. 43; Gal. ii. 16; Phil. iii. 9; Acts xiii. 38, 39; Eph. ii. 7, 8.
II. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.
John i. 12; Rom. iii. 28; Rom. v. 1; James. ii. 17, 22, 26; Gal. v. 6.
III. Christ, by His obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to His Father's justice in their behalf. Yet, inasmuch as He was given by the Father for them; and His obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead; and both freely, not for anything in them; their justification is only of free grace; that both the exact justice, and rich grace of God, might be glorified in the justification of sinners.
Rom. v. 8, 9, 10, 19; 1 Tim. ii. 5, 6; Heb. x. 10, 14; Dan. ix. 24, 26; Isa. liii. 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12; Rom. viii. 32; 2 Cor. v. 21; Matt. iii. 17; Eph. v. 2; Rom. iii. 24; Eph. i. 7; Rom. iii. 26; Eph. ii. 7.
IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fulness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification: nevertheless, they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.
Gal. iii. 8; 1 Pet. i. 2, 19, 20, Rom. viii. 30; Gal. iv. 4; 1 Tim. ii. 6; Rom. iv. 25; Col. i. 21, 22; Gal. ii. 16; ***. iii. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
V. God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified; and, although they can never fall from the state of justification; yet they may, by their sins, fall under God's fatherly displeasure, and not have the light of His countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance.
Matt. vi. 12; 1 John i. 7, 9: 1 John ii. 1, 2; Luke xxii. 32; John x. 28; Heb. x. 14; Ps. lxxxix. 31, 32, 33; Ps. li. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; Ps. xxxii 5; Matt. xxvi. 75; 1 Cor. xi. 30, 32; Luke i. 20.
VI. The justification of believers under the old testament was, in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers under the new testament.
Gal. iii. 9, 13, 14; Rom. iv. 22, 23, 24; Heb. xiii. 8.
