Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized) · Chapter 5

Of Providence

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6. As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as a righteous judge, for former sins does blind and harden,^a from them he not only withholds his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings, and wrought upon in their hearts;^b but, sometimes also withdraws the gifts which they had,^c and exposes them to such objects as their corruption makes occasions of sin;^d and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan:^e whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means, which God uses for the softening of others.^f

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