Q&A 31 Of Effectual Calling
Do the Called of God hear any Voice from Heaven? A. Ordinarily it is a Call without Sound, yet as efficacious as an audible Voice from Heaven.
Q&A 32 Of the Concomitants of Vocation
That all Believer’s Privileges are not in Hope, but some in Hand, 1 John 3:1 Behold what Manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God.
Q&A 33 Of Justification
But doth not James say otherwise, James 2:14 What doth it profit, my Brethren, though a Man, says he, hath Faith, and have not Works, Can Faith save him? A. The two Apostles contradict not one another. Paul speaks of Justification before God; and James of justifying our Faith before Men.
Q&A 34 Of Adoption
It teacheth us to carry ourselves as Children to our heavenly Father: First, In our Imitation of him, Eph 5:1 Be ye therefore Followers of God as dear Children : Secondly, In our Submission to him, Heb 12:9 Furthermore, we have had Fathers of our Flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them Reverence: Shall we not much rather be in Subjection to the Father of Spirits, and live? Thirdly, In our Dependence on him, Matt 6:32 For your heavenly Father knoweth that you have Need of all these Things.
Q&A 35 Of Sanctification
True Sanctification purgeth the Heart from the Love of Sin, Rom 7:15 For that which I do, I allow not And the Life from the Dominion of Sin, Rom 6:19 As ye have yielded your Members Servants to Uncleanness, and to Iniquity, unto Iniquity ; even so now yield your Members Servants to Righteousness, unto Holiness.
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