{"number":20,"title":"Did God leave all Mankind to persih in the state of sin and misery?","part":null,"questions":[20],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"Did God leave all Mankind to persih in the state of sin and misery?","answer":"God having out of his meer good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a Covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.","segments":[{"text":"God having out of his meer good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a Covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Must all mankind unavoidably perish in their sins, and misery?","answer":"No.","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Doth he save all from their sins, and misery?","answer":"No.","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Whom doth he save?","answer":"Only the Elect.","segments":[{"text":"Only the Elect.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What do you mean by the Elect?","answer":"those whom God hath chosen to everlasting life.","segments":[{"text":"those whom God hath chosen to everlasting life.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Hath God elected any?","answer":"Yes.","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Hath God elected all?","answer":"No, but only some.","segments":[{"text":"No, but only some.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What hath God chosen or elected them unto?","answer":"To everlasting life.","segments":[{"text":"To everlasting life.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What was the reason of Gods chusing, or electing them?","answer":"His meer good pleasure.","segments":[{"text":"His meer good pleasure.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Was it for no desert of theirs that they were chosen?","answer":"No.","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"When did God chuse, or elect them?","answer":"From all eternity.","segments":[{"text":"From all eternity.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What did God do for his Elect, to accomplish his decree touching their salvation?","answer":"He entered into Covenant with them.","segments":[{"text":"He entered into Covenant with them.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What Covenant did God establish with the Elect, to bring about their salvation?","answer":"The Covenant of Grace.","segments":[{"text":"The Covenant of Grace.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Could not the salvation of the Elect be brought about by the Covenant of Works?","answer":"No.","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What did God make a new Covenant then?","answer":"Yes.","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Why is it called the Covenant of grace?","answer":"Because in this Covenant, God doth most especially manifest his free, and undeserved grace or favour.","segments":[{"text":"Because in this Covenant, God doth most especially manifest his free, and undeserved grace or favour.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What doth God promise to deliver the Elect out of in the Covenant of grace?","answer":"Out of the estate of sin and misery.","segments":[{"text":"Out of the estate of sin and misery.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What doth God promise to bring them into, in the Covenant of grace?","answer":"Into a state of salvation.","segments":[{"text":"Into a state of salvation.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"How doth he promise to do this?","answer":"By a Redeemer.","segments":[{"text":"By a Redeemer.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Doth the Covenant of grace find the Elect in a state of sin and misery?","answer":"Yes.","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"And doth it put them into a state of salvation?","answer":"Yes.","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}],"text":null}