What Benefits Do They That Are Effectually Called Partake of in This Life?

Answ. Taey that are effectually called, do, in this life, partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.

Q. What is the fruit of our union with Christ in our effectual calling? A. Communion with him.

Q. How may communion with Christ be distinguished I

A. Into communion of interest and of intercourse.

Q. What is the communion of intercourse?

A. That near intimacy and sweet freedom which Christ and his people have with one another, Isa. lviii. 9.

Q. What is the communion of interest?

A, Our actual title to, and possession of Christ himself, and his purchased blessings, Song ii. 16. 1 Cor. i. 30.

Q. In what periods are we made sharers of his blessings?

A. In this life, at death, and at the resurrection.

Q. What blessings do believers share of in this life?

A. Of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and such benefits as in this life flow from them, Rom. viii.

Q. How are the benefits which believers receive from Christ connected with effectual calling r A. They all

flow from our union with Christ obtained in it, 1 Cor. i. 30.

Q. How doth justification flow from union to Christ?

A. By our union to Christ, the Lord our righteousness we become the righteousness cfGod in him, 2 Cor. v. 21.

Q. How doth adoption flow from union to Christ?

A. By union to Christ, the Son of God, we are made the children of God in Christ Jesus, Gal. iii. 26.

Q. How doth sanctification flow from union to Christ?

A. By our union to Christ as an head of influence, he becomes our strength and satisfaction, 1 Cor. i. 30.

Q. How doth an happy death flow from this union?

A. This union draws our departing souls to Christ’s presence, and renders the grave a perfumed bed for our bodies, Rev. xiv. 13. Isa. xxvi. 19. and lvii. 2.

Q. How doth our happy resurrection flow from this union?

A. Being one with Christ, the resurrection and the /(fe, we must be raised as members of his body, Isa. xxvi. 19.

Q. How doth our eternal happiness flow from this union? A. Being one with Christ, the eternal life we

must live for ever in and with him, Col. iii. 3, 4.