Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling
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.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 10.3
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.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 10.3
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 uncapable of being outwardly called by the Ministry of the Word.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 10.3
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.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 10.3, which this paragraph revises
Are all those whom GOD hath predestinated to life, and those onely, in his appointed, and accepted time, effectually called, by his Word and Spirit, out of the estate of sin and…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 10.3, which this paragraph revises
This statement has been the subject of much misunderstanding. It is often referred to as a denial of infant salvation. Because elect infants are specified, it is supposed that…
