Of the Salvation of God's Elect, and of the Covenant of Grace
Q. 7. What are the miseries after this life?
A. The pains and torments of hell for ever; Psal. 9:17. The wicked shall be turned into hell.
Q. 8. What are the torments of hell?
A. Pain of loss and pain of sense; Matth. 25:41. Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire.
Q. 9. What learn you from hence?
A. The woeful state of the unconverted; miserable here, and miserable to eternity.
Q. 10. What else learn we hence?
A. The great salvation believers have by Christ from all this misery; Heb. 2:3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.
Of the Salvation of God's Elect, and of the Covenant of Grace Quest. 20. DID God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery; A. God having out of his mere 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.
Q. 1. Are some persons chosen to salvation, and others left?
A. Yes: God hath chosen some to salvation, and passed by others; as the Scriptures speak; See Rom. 8:30. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called. And Jude 4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, &c.
Q. 2. Did God chuse some, because he foresaw they would be better than others; A. No: God's choice was not on foreseen works, but merely of his grace, and good pleasure of his will; Eph. 1:5, 6. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace.
Q. 3. Is this election of God made in time, and that according as men use their free-will, or from eternity?
A. Election is an eternal act of God before the world was, and depends not on man's using his free-will; as appears from Eph. 1:4,
According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love.
Q. 4. Shall all that are elected be called and saved?
A, Yes, the scripture is full and plain for it; Acts 13:48. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. Rom.
8:30. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, &c.
Q. 5. By whom are the elect saved?
A. By Christ, the only Redeemer; Titus 3:4, 5, 6. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of