Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing) · Chapter 5

Of Divine Providence

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6. As for those wicked and ungodly men, whom God as a righteous judge, for former sin doth blind and harden; from them he not only withholdeth his^a Grace, whereby they might have been inlightned in their understanding, and wrought upon in their hearts: But sometimes also withdraweth^b the gifts which they had, and exposeth them to such^c objects as their corruptions makes occasion of sin; and withall^d gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan, whereby it comes to pass, that they^e harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softning of others.^f

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