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The Larger Catechiſm. 19 42. b Pſalm cxlvii. 19, 20. Rom. ix. 4. Eph. iv. 11, 12. Mark xvi. 15, 16. Fohu vl. 37. Q. What is the inviſible Church ? A. The inviſible Church is the whole Number of the Elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into One, under Chriſt the Head d. d Eph. 1. 10, 22, 23. 7oh. 16. & xi. 52. Q. What ſpecial Benefits the Members of the inviſible Church enjoy by Chriſt? A. The Members of the inviſible Church, by Chriſt, enjoy Union and Communion with him in Grace and Glory e, e John xvii. 21. Eph. ii. 5,6. John xvii. 24. Q. What is that Union which the Elect have with Chriſt ? A. The Union which the Fleet have with Chriſt, is the work of God's Grace f, whereby they are 1piritually and myſtically, yet really and inseparably, joined to Chriſt as their Head and Husband g, which is done in their effectual Calling 1. f Eph. 1. 22. & 1 6, 7,5. g Cor. xvii. John X. 28. Eph. V. 23, 30. h i Peter V. 10. 1 Cor. i. 9. Q. What is Effectual Calling? A. Effectual Calling is the work of God's Al- mighty Power and Grace i, whereby (out of his free and eſpecial Love to his Elect, and from nothing in them moving him thereunto k) he doth, in his ac- cepred Time, invite and draw them unto Jeſus Chriſt by his Word and Spirit I, ſuvingly enlighten- ing their minds m. renewing and powerfully deter- mining their Wills, ſo as they (although in them- ſelves dead in Sin) are hereby made willing and able frecly to anſwer his Gall, and to accept and embrace the Grace offered and conveyed therein 0. i John v. 25. Eph. i. 18, 19, 20, 2 Tim. i 8,9 k Titus i. 4. 5. Eph. ii. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9. Rom. ix. 11. C2 I 2 Cor.