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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. X. Of effectual calling.
ALL those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only he is pleased in his appointed & accepted time, effectually to calla, by his word and Spiritb, out of that ⟨p. 28⟩state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christc, in lightning their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of Godd; 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 goodf,e & effectually drawing them to Jesus Christg; yet so, as they come most freely, being made willing by his graceh.