# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1905_S158
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

158 Die Prädestination nach der Westminster Confession of Faith.

„Ch. VIII. I. It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to
choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only-begotten Son, to be the
Mediator between God and man; the prophet, priest, and king;
the head and Savior of his Church; the heir of all things, and judge
of the world; unto whom he did, from all eternity, give a people to
be his seed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified,
sanctified, and glorified.

V. The Lord Jesus ... purchased not only reconciliation, but
an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those
whom the Father hath given unto him.

VIII. To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemp-
tion, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the
same.

Ch. X. I. All those whom God hath 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.

„III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and
saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where,
and how he pleaseth. So also are all other elect persons, who are
incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.“)

IV. Others not elected, although they ma/ be called be/ thεmun-
stry of the Nord, and maꝝ hνe some common operatτιons of thεσ Spirit,
vet thenν never trul comé to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved.“
(Also keine Zeitgläubigen.)

„Ch. XI. —I. Those whom God effectually calleth, he also
freely justifietb.

„III. Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge
the debt of all those that are thus justified

IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect;
and Christ did, in the fullness of time, die kor their sins, and rise
again for their justification.“' (Keine objective Rechtfertigung der ganzen
Welt.)

„Ch. XVII.—I. They whom God bhath accepted in his Be-
loved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither
totalla/ nor finally fall away from the state of grace; but shall cer-
tainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.“

I) KevistonWith reference to ch. X, sect. 3 of the Confession of Faith,
that it is not to be regarded as teaching that any who die in infancy are lost.
We believe that all dying in infancy are included in the election of grace,
and are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who works when
and where and how he pleases.“ (Handboob, p. 15.)