Paragraph 5.6

Of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as the righteous judge, for former sin does blind and harden;⁠1 from them He not only withholdeth His grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understanding, and wrought upon their hearts;⁠2 but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had,⁠3 and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;⁠4 and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan,⁠5 whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, under those means which God useth for the softening of others.⁠6

The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

5.6

As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as a righteous judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden,⁠1 from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings and wrought upon in their hearts,⁠2 but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had,⁠3 and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;⁠4 and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan;⁠5 whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softening of others.⁠6