Christ Church Yeadon

Westminster Confession of Faith CHAPTER XI. Of Justification IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect; and Christ did, in the fulness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification: nevertheless they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit does in due time actually apply Christ unto them.

also: Exodus 7:1-13; 1 Timothy 2:8-15; Psalm 141

also: Exodus 19:12-13; Revelation 21:1-27

CHAPTER XI. Of Justification III. Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Father's justice in their behalf. Yet, in as much as he was given by the Father for them, and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead, and both freely, not for any thing in them, their justification is only of free grace; that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.

also: Jeremiah 17:1-10; Matthew 24:3-14; Psalm 1

Westminster Confession of Faith CHAPTER XI. Of Justification II. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but works by love.

also: Proverbs 16:16-33; Ephesians 4:25-31; Psalm 37

Westminster Confession of Faith CHAPTER XI. Of Justification THOSE whom God effectually calls he also freely justifies; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous: not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone: not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience, to them as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith: which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God.

also: Genesis 45:1-11; Romans 9:14-24; 1 Corinthians 3:12-15

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also Malachi 3:1-7 1 Corinthians 3:11-15

Supporting Scriptures Micah 6:8-16 Revelation 5:6-14

John 17:14 John 18:5-8 John 18:37

Supporting Scriptures: Isaiah 42:1-4 Zechariah 9:9 Isaiah 50:6 Isaiah 53:7 Psalm 18:35 Psalm 23 James 3:17-18

also: Jeremiah 28:1-4; 10-17 Hebrews 4:11-16 Psalm 95

CHAPTER X. Of Effectual Calling IV. Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved; much less can men not professing the Christian religion be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they ever so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the law of that religion they do profess; and to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.

Deuteronomy 19:15-21; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Psalm 78

16. I Am in my Father and the Father is in me – John 14:9-11,20 17. I Am the True Vine – John 15:1,5

Acts 17:1-15

also: Deuteronomy 6:1-9; John 14:1-6

Westminster Confession of Faith CHAPTER X. Of Effectual Calling III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who works when, and where, and how he pleases. So also are all other elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word.

also: Malachi 3:1-7; 1 Corinthians 15:35-49; Psalm 102

also: Deuteronomy 25:1-16; Acts 20:25-35; Psalm 112

also Psalm 22; John 15:1-8; Colossians 3:1-6

Westminster Confession of Faith CHAPTER X. Of Effectual Calling II. This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from any thing at all foreseen in man; who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.

also 1 Kings 22:14-28; Acts 23:1-11

Apologies for low volume supporting passages: Proverbs 31:10-31; 1 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Westminster Confession of Faith CHAPTER X. Of Effectual Calling 1. ALL those whom God has predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a heart of flesh; renewing their wills, and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good; and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.

also Jeremiah 17:14-18; 20:7-13 Acts 16:16-34 Psalm 3

The Son of Man - John 9:35-37 The Gate - John 10:7,9 The Good Shepherd - John 10:11,14

also 1 Samuel 1:5-28; 17:31-54 Ephesians 2:8-10 Psalm 3

also - Isaiah 43:1-3,11-13; Revelation 12:10-12,17; 14:6-12; Psalm 71

also: Proverbs 4:1-9,20-27; James 1:21-27

Chapter 9: Of Free Will III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. IV. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he frees him from his natural bondage under sin, and 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 does not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but does also will that which is evil. V. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to do good alone in the state of glory only.