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20 The Larger Catechiſm. 1 2 Cor. v. 20. & vi. 1, 2. Tot vi. 44- 2 Thel1113, 14. m Acts xxvi 18. I Cor. ii. 10, 12 n Ezek. xi. 19. & xxxvie 26, 27 John vi. 45. 0 5ph, ii. 5. Phi- lip. ii, 13. Deut. xxx. 6. Q. Are the Elect only effectually called? A. All the Elect, and they only, are effectually called P: although others may be, and often are out- wardly called by the Miniſry of the Word q, and have ſome common Operations of the Spirit r, 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 ſ. p Acts xii. 48. 9 Mat. xxii. 14. r Mat, vil 22. and xiii. 20, 21. Heb vi. 4. 5. 6. 7ohn xii. 38, 39, 40. Actſ xxviii. 25, 26, 27. John vi. 64, 65. Pſalm Ixxxi. 11, 12 Q. What is the Communion in Grace which the Members of the inviſible Church have with Chriſt? A. The Communion in Grace, which the Mem- bers f the inviſible Church have with Chriſt, is their pataking of the Virtue of his Mediation, in their Juſtification t, Adoption, Sanctification, and what ever elſe, in this life, manifeſts their Union with him w. t Rom. viii. 39. Eph. 1. 5. w 1 Cor. i. 30. Q. What is Juſtification ? 2. Juſtification is an Act of God's free Grace un- to Sinners x, in which he pardoneth all their Sins, accepteth and accounteth the Perſon righteous in is Sihty, not for any Thing wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect Obedience and full ſatisfaction of Christ, by God impured to them a, and received by Faith alone b. x Rom. iii 23, 24, 25. and iv. 5 y 2 Cor. W. 19, 21. Rom. ill. 22, 24, 25, 27. 28. z Titus ii. 3.7. Eph. 1.7Rom. v. 17, 18, 19. & iv. 6, 7,8. b. Acts X. 43. Gal, ii r6 Philip. iii. 9. Q: How