III.

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

m Luke, 18: 15, 16, and Acts, 2: 38, 39, and John 3: 5, and 1 John, 5: 22, compared Rom. 8: 9. n John 3: 8. 0 1 John, 5: 12; Acts 4: 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 not being effectually drawn by the Father, they neither do nor can 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.t

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p Matt. 23: 14; q Matt. 7: 22, and 13 4, 5. r John, 6 64, 65, 66, and 8: 24.

20, 21; Heb. 6:

s Acts, 4: 12; John, 14:6; Eph. 2: 12; John, 4: 22, and 17: 3. t2 John, 9: 10, 11; 1 Cor. 16: 22; Gal. 1: 6, 7, 8.

CHAP. XI.

OF JUSTIFICATION.

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I.

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 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, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God."

a Rom. 8: 30, and 3: 24. Cor. 5: 19, 21; Rom. 3: 22, 24, 25, 27, 28; Eph. 17; Jer. 23: 6; 1 Cor. 2: 30, 31; 18, 19. c Acts, 10: 44; 13: 38, 39; Eph. 2: 7, 8.

b Rom. 4: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; 2

Tit. 3: 5, 7;

Rom. 5: 17,

Gal. 2: 16; Phil. 3:9; Acts

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 jus

tified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead Faith, but worketh by love.

d John, 1 12; Rom. 3: 20, and 5: 1. e Jam. 2 : 17, 22, 26; Gal. 5: 6.

III.

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 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 any thing in them, their justification is only of free grace, that both the exact justice and and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.k

i

g Rom.

f Rom. 5: 8, 9, 10, 19; 1 Tim. 2: 5, 6; Heb. 10: 10, 14; Dan. 9: 24, 26; Isa. 53: 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12. 8:32. h 2 Cor. 5: 21; Matt. 3: 17; Eph. 5: 2. 3 24; Eph. 1:7. k Rom. 3:26; Eph. 2: 7.

IV.

i Rom,

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

1 Gal. 38; 1 Pet. 1: 2, 19, 20; Rom. 8:30. m Gal. 4:4; 1 Tim. 2: 6; Rom. 4: 25. n Col. 1: 21, 22; Gal. 2:16; Tit. 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 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 restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance.

o Matt. 6 12; 1 John 1: 7, 9, and 2: 1, 2. p Luke 12: 32; John 10:28; Heb. 10: 14. 9 Psal. 89: 31, 32, 33, and 51: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 32: 5; Matt. 26.: 75; 1 Cor. 11:30, 31, 32; Luke. 1: 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.r

r Gal. 3:8, 9, 13, 14; Rom. 4: 22, 23, 24; Heb. 13: 8.

CHAP. XII.

OF ADOPTION.

ALL those that are justified, God vouchsafeth in, and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make

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partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, have his name put upon them, receive the spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry Abba, Father, are pitied, protected," provided for,i and chastened by him as by a father, yet never cast off, but sealed to the day of redemption, and inherit the promises" as heirs of everlasting salvation.o

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Rom. 8: 17; John, 1: 12. Rev. 3: 12. d Rom. 8: 15. Gal. 4; 6. g Psal. 103: 13.

h Prov. 24: 26. i Matt. 6:30, 32; 1 Pet. 5: 7. k Heb. 12: Lam. 3: 3. m Eph. 4:30. n Heb. 6: 12. o 1 Pet. 1: 3, 4; Heb. 1: 14.

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CHAP. XIII.

OF SANCTIFICATION.

I.

THEY that are effectually called and regenerated, being united to Christ, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them, through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, also further sanctified really and personally through the same virtue by his word and spirit dwelling in them, the dominion of the whole

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