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CHA P. IX

Of Free-Will.

IOD hath endued the Will of Man with

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that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor by any abfolute necessity of Nature determined to do good or evil. a Mat. 17. 12. Jam. 1. 14: Deut. 30. 19.

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Man in his ftate of Innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleafing to God; but yet mutably, fo that he might fall from it. b Gen. 1. 26. Eccl. 7. 29. Gen. 3. 6. c Gen. 2.16,17.

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Man by his Fall into a flate of Sin, hath wholly loft all ability of Will to any Spiritual good accompanying Salvation, a so as a natural man being altegether averse from that good, and dead in fin, is not able by his own ftrength to convert himfell, or to prepare himfelf thereunto. gd Rom. 5.6. Jbn 15.5.Rom. 3. 10, 12. f Epb. 2. 1, 5. Col 2. 13. 8 John 6 44, 65. Epb. 2. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1 Cor. 2. 14. Tit. 3. 3, 4, 5,

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When God converts a Sinner,and tranflates him into the state of Grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under fin band by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is Spiritually good; ; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining Corruption, he deth not perfe&ly nor only will that which is good, but doth alfo will that which is evil, h Col. 1. 13. Phil. 2. 13, Rom. 6. 18, 22.* Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 15, 18,19,28, 23:

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The will of Man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the ftate of Glory only. John 3. 2. Jude 24. Epb. 4. 13. Heb. 12. 23.

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CHAP. X.

Of Effectual Calling.

LL thofe whom God hath prédeftinated unto Life and thofe only, he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time effectually to call a by his Word and Spirit, out of that ftate of fin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and Salvation by Jefus Chrift, inlightning their minds Spiritually and favingly to understand the things of God, taking y their heart of ftone, & giving unto them

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Renewing their Wills, and by his Almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jefus Chrift: yet 'fo as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace, * Rom. 8.30.& 11 7 Epb. 1. 10,11. 2 Thef 2.13,14 2 Cor. 3. 3,6. Rom. 8. 7. Epb 2 1,. 2,3,4,5 2 Tim I 9,10. Acts 26. 18. Col. 2.10,11. Eph. 1.17,18. Ezek 36 26, 1 Ezek. 11.19 Phil 2.13. Deut 30 6, Ezek 36.27. $ Epb.1.19. John 6 44,45. * Cant 1 4. Pfal.110 3. John 6. 37. Rom. 6, 16, 17, 18.

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This effectualCall is of God's free and special grace alone, not from any thing at all fore feen in Man, who is altogether passive therein, until being quickned and renewed by the holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this Call, and to embrace the grace offered & conveyed in it. 2 Tim. 1. 9. Tit. :3. 4,5) Epb. 2. 45,8,9. Rom. 9. 11. ¡Cor. 2. 144

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Rom. 8,7. Epb.2 5. Jobn6. 37. Ezek. 36.27. Rom. 8. 9. John 5. 25.

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Elect Infants dying in Infancy, are regene

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pable of being outwardly called by the Miniftry of the Word.

Luke 18. 15,16.

John 5.12.

Alts 2 38, 39. & John 3: 5. & 1 John 5. 22. compared Rom. 8.9. John 38.

Arts 4. 12.

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Others not elected, although they may be talled by theMiniftry of the Word, and may have fome common operations of the Spirit, yet not being effe&tually drawn by the Father, they neither do nor can come unto Chrift, & therefore cannot be faved; much lefs can men not profeffing the Chriftian Religion, be faved in any other way whatsoever, be they never to diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the law of that Religion they do profefs: And fo affert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested. Mat. 22.14. Mat.7.22. 13.20,21. Heb. 6. 4,5. * John6 64,65,66, Alts 4. 12. John 14.6. Epb. 2. 42. Jobn 4. 22.817 3. 27obn 9. 10, 11. 1 Cor. 16. 22. Gal. i. 6, 7, 8.

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CHAP. XI

Of Juftification.

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Hofe whom God effectually calleth, he allo freely juftifieth, not by infufing

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righteousness into them, but by pardoning their Sins, and by accounting and accepting their perfons as righteous not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's fake alone; nor by imputing Faith itself, the act of believing, or any other Evangelical Obedience to them, as their Righteoufnefs, but by imputing Chrift's active Obedience to the whole Law, and paffive Obedience in his fufferings and death, for their whole and fole Righteoufnefs, they receiving and refting on him and his righteousness by Faith; which Faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God. Rom. 8. 30. & 3. 24. Rom. 4. 4,5,6,7,8. 2 Cor. 5. 19, 21. Rom 3, 22,24,25,27,28. Tit. 3.5,7. Eph. 1.7. Fer. 23.6. 1 Cor. 2. 30, 31. Rom. 5.17.18.19. Alls 10. 44. Gal. 2. 16. Phil. 3 9. As 13.38,39. 3.9. Epb. 2. 7, 8.

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Faith thus receiving and refting on Chrift, and his righteousness, is the alone inftrument I of Juftification; * yet it is not alone in the perfon juftified, but is ever accompanied with all other faving graces, and is no dead Faith, but worketh by Love John 1. 12. Rom. 3 28. & 5. 1* Jam. 2. 17,22,26. Gal. 5.

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Chrift by his Obedience & Death did fully

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