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Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 11: Of Justification

3: 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.^[239] Yet, in as much as He was given by the Father for them;^[240] and His obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead;^[241] and both, freely, not for any thing in them; their justification is only of free grace;^[242] that both the exact justice, and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.^[243]

Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 11: Of Justification

2: Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification:^[237] 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.^[238]

Westminster Larger Catechism

Q. 70. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace unto sinners,^[286] in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight;^[287] not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them,^[288] but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them,^[289] and received by faith alone.^[290]

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Q. 33. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace,^[91] wherein he pardoneth all our sins,^[92] and accepteth us as righteous in His sight,^[93] only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us,^[94] and received by faith alone.^[95]

Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 11: Of Justification

1: Those whom God effectually calls, He also freely justifies;^[234] 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; nor 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,^[235] they receiving and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.^[236]

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.^[90]

Westminster Larger Catechism

Q. 60. Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature?
A. They who, having never heard the gospel,^[253] know not Jesus Christ,^[254] and believe not in him, cannot be saved,^[255] be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature,^[256] or the laws of that religion which they profess;^[257] neither is there salvation in any other, but in Christ alone,^[258] who is the Savior only of his body the church.^[259]

Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling

4: Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word,^[229] and may have some common operations of the Spirit,^[230] yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved:^[231] much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the laws of that religion they do profess.^[232] And to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.^[233]

Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling

3: Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit,^[226] who works when, and where, and how He pleases:^[227] so also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.^[228]

Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling

2: This effectual call is of God’s free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man,^[223] who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit,^[224] he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.^[225]

Westminster Larger Catechism

Q. 68. Are the elect only effectually called?
A. All the elect, and they only, are effectually called:^[279] although others may be, and often are, outwardly called by the ministry of the Word,^[280] and have some common operations of the Spirit;^[281] who, for their wilful neglect and contempt of the grace offered to them, being justly left in their unbelief, do never truly come to Jesus Christ.^[282]