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Chapter 10
Of Effectual Calling
| Paras | |
| 1 | I. The general overview of effectual calling |
| A. Its recipients: “those whom God hath predestinated unto life” | |
| B. Its Author: “God” (The Father) | |
| C. Its occasion: “In his appointed and accepted time” | |
| D. Its efficacy: “effectually to call” | |
| E. Its means: “by his Word and Spirit” | |
| F. Its transition: “out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ” | |
| G. Its operation: “enlightening . . . taking away . . . renewing . . . yet so as they come most freely. . .” | |
| 2-4 | II. The specific issues about effectual calling |
| 2 | A. The issue related to its agency |
| 3-4 | B. The issues related to its instrumentality |
| 3 | 1. The instrumentality of the Word and the mentally incompetent |
| 4(a) | 2. The instrumentality of the Word and its non-elect hearers |
| 4(b) | 3. The instrumentality of the Word and the ignorant heathen |
From: Samuel E. Waldron, A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, (Evangelical Press, 1989), p. 148-149. Used by permission.
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