Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
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All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, 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 enlighte…
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This effectual call is of God’s free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man; 1 who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit, 2 he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and co…
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Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, 1 who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth. 2 So also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word. 3
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Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, 1 and may have some common operations of the Spirit, 2 yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: 3 much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any o…
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