What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?

1. “What special [benefits] do the members of the invisible church,” or such as are effectually called, “enjoy by Christ?”

They “enjoy union and communion with him, in grace and glory,” [See Larger Cat. Quest. 65.]

2. “What is the communion in grace, which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?”

It “is their partaking of the virtue of his mediation, in their justification, adoption, sanctification, and whatever else, in this life, manifests their union with him,” [Ibid. Quest. 69.]

3. How are all these benefits connected with effectual calling?

By a connection established in the eternal purpose and counsel of God, wherein all these blessings, or benefits, were sweetly linked together, “Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”

4. What is the connection betwixt effectual calling and justification?

In effectual calling, sinners, being united to Christ by faith, have thereby communion with him in his righteousness for justification.

5. How is adoption connected with effectual calling?

In virtue of the union which takes place in effectual calling, believers stand related to Christ, as having a new kind of interest in God as his Father, and consequently their Father in him, according to John xx. 17. “I ascend to my Father, and your Father:” John 20:17 and Eph. i. 3. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 1:3

6. What is the blessed effect of this new kind of interest, which Christ, as the head of the body, hath in God as his Father?

That, by the Spirit of adoption, we may call God our Father, in the right of Jesus Christ, our elder brother, “Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”

7. How is effectual calling connected with sanctification?

In virtue of the union, which takes place in effectual calling, believers are related to Christ, as the Lord their strength, their quickening and influencing head, who of God is made unto them—sanctification.

8. What is the connection betwixt effectual calling and a blessed death?

In effectual calling, believers are united to Christ, by an union that cannot be dissolved by death.

9. What is the connection betwixt effectual calling and an happy resurrection?

In effectual calling, sinners are united to Christ, as a living and exalted head, and therefore their happy resurrection is absolutely secured in him, because he is risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.

10. What improvement should we make, of this sweet connection that is betwixt all these benefits, whereof the effectually-called are partakers?

We ought, through grace, in the use of all the means and ordinances of God’s appointment, to give all diligence to make our calling and election sure; that having the knowledge of our justification and adoption, by our sanctification, we may have the comfortable prospect of an happy death, and glorious resurrection.