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as that, by reason of his remaining manentem adhuc in eo corruptiocorruption, he doth not perfectly, nem, bonum nec perfecte velit; nenor only, will that which is good, but que id tantummodo, verum etiam doth also will that which is evil.'

V. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.'

quandoque malum.

V. Voluntas humana perfecte ac immutabiliter libera ad bonum solum redditur non nisi in statu gloriæ.'

CHAPTER X.

Of Effectual Calling.

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CAP. X.

De vocatione efficaci.

I. Deus quos ad vitam prædestinavit omnes, eosque solos dignatur per verbum suum et spiritum3 constituto suo acceptoque tempore vocare efficaciter e statu illo peccati et mor

I. 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 tis in quo sunt natura constituti, they are by nature, to grace and ad gratiam ac salutem per Jesum salvation by Jesus Christ; enlight- Christum; idque mentes eorum ening their minds, spiritually and illuminando, ut modo spirituali et savingly, to understand the things salutari quæ Dei sunt intelligant;' of God; taking away their heart tollendo eorum cor lapideum, doof stone, and giving unto them an nandoque eis cor carneum ;1 volunheart of flesh; renewing their tates eorum renovando ac pro powills, and by his almighty power tentia sua omnipotente ad bonum determining them to that which determinando, et ad Jesum Chriis good, and effectually drawing stum trahendo efficaciter;' ita tathem to Jesus Christ; yet so as men ut illi nihilominus liberrime they come most freely, being made veniant, volentes nempe facti per willing by his grace." illius gratiam."

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II. Efficax hæc vocatio est a sola

Acts xxvi. 18; 1 Cor. ii. 10, 12; Eph. i. 17, 18.
Ezek. xxxvi. 26.

Eph. iv. 13; Heb. xii. 23; 1 John iii. 2;

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Rom. viii. 2; Eph. ii. 1-5; 2 Tim. i. 9, 10 Cant. i. 4; Psa. cx. 3; John vi. 37; Rom.

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free and special grace alone, not | Dei gratia, gratuita illa et speciali; from any thing at all foreseen in a nulla autem re in homine præman;' who is altogether passive visa; qui in hoc negotio se habet therein, until, being quickened and omnino passive, donec per spiritum renewed by the Holy Spirit,' he sanctum vivificatus ac renovatus," is thereby enabled to answer this potis inde factus sit vocationi huic call, and to embrace the grace respondere, gratiamque inibi oblaoffered and conveyed in it.' tam et exhibitam amplexari.

III. Electi infantes in infantia sua morientes regenerantur salvanturque a Christo per spiritum (qui

III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and quando et ubi, et quo sibi placuerit how he pleaseth. So also are all modo operatur), sicut et reliqui electi other elect persons, who are in- omnes, quotquot externæ vocationis capable of being outwardly called per ministerium verbi sunt incaby the ministry of the Word."

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IV. Others, not elected, although IV. Alii autem, qui non electi sunt, they may be called by the ministry of ut ut verbi ministerio vocari possint," the Word,' and may have some com- communesque nonnullas operationes mon operations of the Spirit, yet Spiritus experiri, nunquam tamen they never truly come unto Christ, vere ad Christum accedunt, proinand therefore can not be saved:" deque nec salvari possunt." Multo much less can men, not professing quidem minus poterunt illi, quotquot the Christian religion, be saved in religionem Christianam non profiany other way whatsoever, be they tentur (summam licet operam navanever so diligent to frame their verint moribus suis ad naturæ lulives according to the light of na- men, istiusque quam profitentur reture and the law of that religion ligionis legem componendis), extra they do profess;" and to assert hanc unicam viam salutem unquam and maintain that they may is obtinere." Atque huic quidem contra

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and sacrifices, wherein he was re- ficia, quibus revelatum erat et sigvealed, and signified to be the seed nificatum hunc esse semen illud of the woman which should bruise mulieris, quod contriturum erat the serpent's head, and the lamb serpentis caput, agnumque illum slain from the beginning of the mactatum ab initio mundi; ut qui world, being yesterday and to-day heri ac hodie idem est et in sempithe same and forever.' ternum.'

VII. Christus in opere Mediatorio agit secundum utramque naturam, id agens per utramvis, quod eidem proprium est, nonnunquam

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VII. Christ, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet, by reason of the unity of the person, tamen fit propter persona unitathat which is proper to one nature tem ut quod uni naturæ propriis sometimes, in Scripture, attrib- um est, personæ ab altera natura uted to the person denominated denominata in Scriptura tribuaby the other nature.3 tur.3

VIII. To all those for whom VIII. Pro quibus Christus reChrist hath purchased redemption demptionem acquisivit, iis omnibus he doth certainly and effectually certo quidem ac efficaciter eam apapply and communicate the same; plicat impertitque, pro eis intermaking intercession for them, and cedens,' eisque in verbo et per verrevealing unto them, in and by the bum revelans mysterium salutis,* Word, the mysteries of salvation; per Spiritum suum eis ut credere effectually persuading them by his velint ac obedire persuadens efficaSpirit to believe and obey; and citer, eorumque gubernans corda governing their hearts by his Word verbo suo spirituque; sed et vi sua and Spirit; overcoming all their omnipotenti, ac sapientia debellans enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation.

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omnes eorum hostes, iis autem modis mediisque quæ admirabili et inscrutabili ejus dispensationi sunt maxime consentanea.*

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death, did fully discharge the debt cantur, eorum omnium debita Chriof all those that are thus justified, stus per obedientiam suam mortemque and did make a proper, real, and prorsus dissolvit; eorumque vice jufull satisfaction to his Father's stitiæ Patris sui realem, plenam, et justice in their behalf. Yet in- proprie dictam satisfactionem præasmuch as he was given by the stitit.' Quum tamen non propter in Father for them, and his obe- iis quicquam, verum gratuito Pater dience and satisfaction accepted cum Christum ipsum pro eis dederit, in their stead,' and both freely, tum obedientiam ejus ac satisfactionot for any thing 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."

IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fullness 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."

nem tanquam eorum loco constituti3 acceptaverit; omnino a gratia gratuita est eorum justificatio;* Quo nimirum Dei tum accurata justitia tum locuples gratia glorificata foret in justificatione peccatorum."

IV. Ab æterno decrevit Deus electos omnes justificare, Christusque in temporis plenitudine mortuus est pro eorum peccatis, et in justificationem eorum resurrexit: nihilo minus tamen justificati prius non sunt, quam Christum eis in tempore suo opportuno Spiritus Sanctus actu applicuerit." V. Perseverat Deus eorum pec

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V. God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are cata condonare quos semel justifijustified; and although they can cavit, quin et etiamsi excidere statu never fall from the state of justi- justificationis nunquam possint; fication," yet they may by their fieri tamen potest ut iræ Dei, pasins fall under God's fatherly dis- ternæ quidem illi, per peccata sua pleasure, and not have the light se exponant, nec lumen paterni vulof his countenance restored unto tus prius sibi habeant restitutum, them, until they humble them- quam semet ipsos humiliaverint,

'Rom. v. 8-10, 19; 1 Tim. ii. 5, 6; Heb. x. 10, 14; Dan. ix. 24, 26; Isa. liii. 4-6, 10-12.

"Rom. viii. 32.

2 Cor. v. 21; Matt. iii. 17; Eph. v. 2. 'Rom. iii. 24; Eph. i. 7.

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Rom. iii. 26; Eph. ii. 7.

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; Titus iii. 4-7.
Matt. vi. 12; 1 John i. 7, 9; ii. 1, 2.

10 Luke xxii. 32; John x. 28; Heb. x. 14.

as that, by reason of his remaining|manentem adhuc in eo corruptiocorruption, he doth not perfectly, nem, bonum nec perfecte velit; nenor only, will that which is good, but que id tantummodo, verum etiam doth also will that which is evil.'

V. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.'

quandoque malum.

V. Voluntas humana perfecte ac immutabiliter libera ad bonum solum redditur non nisi in statu gloriæ.

CHAPTER X.

Of Effectual Calling.

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CAP. X.

De vocatione efficaci.

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I. All those whom God hath pre- I. Deus quos ad vitam prædestinadestinated unto life, and those only, vit omnes, eosque solos dignatur per he is pleased, in his appointed and verbum suum et spiritum3 constituto accepted time, effectually to call, suo acceptoque tempore vocare effiby his Word and Spirit, out of caciter e statu illo peccati et morthat state of sin and death, in which tis in quo sunt natura constituti, they are by nature, to grace and ad gratiam ac salutem per Jesum salvation by Jesus Christ; enlight- Christum; idque mentes eorum ening their minds, spiritually and illuminando, ut modo spirituali et savingly, to understand the things salutari quæ Dei sunt intelligant ;* of God; taking away their heart tollendo eorum cor lapideum, doof stone, and giving unto them an nandoque eis cor carneum ;' volunheart of flesh;' renewing their tates eorum renovando ac pro powills, and by his almighty power tentia sua omnipotente ad bonum determining them to that which determinando, et ad Jesum Chriis good, and effectually drawing stum trahendo efficaciter;' ita tathem to Jesus Christ; yet so as men ut illi nihilominus liberrime they come most freely, being made veniant, volentes nempe facti per willing by his grace.10 illius gratiam."

II. This effectual call is of God's

Gal. v. 17; Rom. vii. 15, 18, 19, 21, 23.
Eph. iv. 13; Heb. xii. 23; 1 John iii. 2;
Jude 24.

Rom. viii. 30; xi. 7; Eph. i. 10, 11.
2 Thess. ii. 13, 14; 2 Cor. iii. 3, 6.

Rom. viii. 2; Eph. ii. 1-5; 2 Tim. i. 9, 10.

II. Efficax hæc vocatio est a sola

6 Acts xxvi. 18; 1 Cor. ii. 10, 12; Eph.i. 17, 18. 7 Ezek. xxxvi. 26.

* Ezek. xi. 19; Phil. ii. 13; Deut. xxx. 6; Ezek. xxxvi. 27.

9 Eph. i. 19; John vi. 44, 45.

10 Cant. i. 4; Psa. cx. 3; John vi. 37; Rom.

vi. 16-18.

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