Answer: All the elect, and they only, are effectually called1; although others may be, and often are, outwardly called by the ministry of the Word2, and have some common operations of the Spirit3; 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.4
- Acts 13:48
- Matthew 22:14
- Matt 7:22; Matt 13:20-21; Hebrews 6:4-6
- John 12:38-40; Acts 28:23-27; John 6:64-65; Psalm 81:11-12