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), p148-149. Used by permission.