一、凡神已经预定得生命的人，且只有他们，祂乐意在祂所定和看为合宜的时候，借着祂的圣言和圣灵（帖后2:13-14；雅1:18；林后3:3,6；林前2:12），有效地呼召他们（徒13:48；罗8:28,30；11:7；弗1:5,11；提后1:9-10），使他们脱离从本性而来的罪和死亡状态，借着耶稣基督进入恩典和拯救（提后1:9-10；彼前2:9；罗8:2；弗2:1-10）：在属灵与得救的事上光照他们的心思，以致明白属神的事（徒26:18；林前2:10,12；弗1:17-18；林后4:6）；除掉他们的石心，赐给他们一颗肉心（结36:26）；更新他们的意志，用祂的大能使他们决定向善（结11:19；申30:6；结36:27；约3:5；多3:5；彼前1:23），并有效地吸引他们归向耶稣基督（约6:44-45；徒16:14）。然而，他们的归向是完全自由的，因为祂的恩典使他们心甘情愿（诗110:3；约6:37；太11:28；启22:17；罗6:16-18；弗2:8；腓1:29）。（译注：有效的呼召并非源于十九世纪复兴传统的模式：大型布道会、呼召、决志，而是借着圣言和圣灵的工作。）

All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased, in His appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ: enlightening their minds, spiritually and savingly, to understand the things of God, taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh; renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good; and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace.

二、这个有效的呼召完全是出于神白白和特别的恩典，而不是来自人的任何可被预见的事情（提后1:9；弗2:8-9；罗9:11）；人在其中完全是被动的，要等到被圣灵唤醒和更新以后（林前2:14；罗8:7-9；多3:4-5），才有能力回应这呼召，并接受其中所赐予和传达的恩典（约6:37；结36:27；约壹5:1；3:9）。（译注：逻辑顺序是：人是先被圣灵重生、然后因信称义。）

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

三、婴儿期夭折的蒙拣选婴孩，是被基督借着圣灵重生和拯救（创17:7；路18:15-16；徒2:39；约3:3,5；约壹5:12；路1:15），圣灵何时、何处、如何做工，都随己意（约3:8）。所有其他无法借着圣言的传讲、蒙外在呼召的选民，也是如此（约16:7-8；约壹5:12；徒4:12）。（译注：但我们并不能确定这些人是谁，所以不能因此疏于圣言的传讲。）

Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who work-eth 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.

四、其他未蒙拣选者，虽然他们可能被圣言的传讲呼召（太13:14-15；徒28:24；13:48；太22:14），也可能经历一些圣灵的一般运行（太13:20-21；7:22；来6:4-5），但他们从未真正来到基督面前，因此无法得救（约6:37,64-66；8:44；13:18；17:12）：更何况那些不承认基督信仰的人，更不能靠任何其他方式得救，不管他们何等殷勤地按照自然之光和他们所信奉的宗教规条来安排生活（徒4:12 ；约壹4:2-3；约贰9；约14:6；弗2:12-13；约4:22；17:3；罗10:13-17）；若肯定和坚持他们可能得救，乃是非常有害、极其可憎的（约贰9-11；林前16:22；加1:6-8）。（译注：这里否定了普救论。nature这个词在十七、十八世纪的用法非常含糊，有时指人的天然本性，有时指自然界，但这并无矛盾，因为当时人们认为这两者都是神造的。）

Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: 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 law of that religion they do profess; and to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.