...Westminster Divines, in the important answer to the question, "What is effectual calling ?" It is there said: "Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby...Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the Gospel." You see here conviction of »in and misery is ordinarily the first step in the eventful process of...

...110: 3. and that he was. drawn tof'tlie Father, and therefore could come to Christ, John 6: 44. For "effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby...persuade and enable .us to embrace Jesus Christ." Short. Catech. "Savingly enlightening their minds, renewingly and powerfully determining their wills,...

...him in heaven. I have nothing to object to it. His will be done." Q. 31. Whatis effectual calling? A. Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby,...convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our mindsin the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persu de and enable us to embrace...

...the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds with the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enabfe us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to w in the Gospel. This may further be considered...

..."the work of God's bpirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds with the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he...Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the Gospel." This may farther be considered as a call from darkness to light, 1 Pet. ii. 9 ; from bondage to liberty,...

...fellowship of hit Son Jesut Christ our Lord. 31. What is effectual call •*g* Effectual calling is a work of God's Spirit,* whereby convincing us of our...in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, the doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel. Rene-wintour-aillt,...

...Cor. iv. 13. . 22. By what means doth the Spirit persuade and enable us to embrace Christ? A. By [" convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening...the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills."] Q. 23. What is the object of the [convincing] work of the Spirit; or what doth he convince us of? A....

...us sensible of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ," &c. Or thus, "Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby convincing us of our sin and misery, making known, or instructing our minds in the knowledge of Christ," &c. Or the whole answer would read...

...misery, enlightening our minds with the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth pei'suade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the GospeL" This may farther be considérée as a call from darkness to light. 1 Pet. ii. 9 ; from bondage to liberty,...

...mental philosophy, adopted by them. "Effectual calling," say they, "is the work of God's Spirit, whereby enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ,...Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel." Now, so far as these words describe facts and acts of the mind, no one, who has experienced a saving...