he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [Chap. 4.] sons of God through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we the grace whereby they are made just. For this bene- the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers THE BEGINNING OF JUSTIFICATION PREVENTING GRACE 85 beginning of the said Justification is to be derived from the impious is indicated as being a translation, from to the state of grace, and of the adoption among the were not born again in Christ, they never would be justified; seeing that, in that new birth, there is be- that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, fit the Apostle exhorts us evermore to give thanks to Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, have redemption and remission of sins. [Chap. 3.] the preventing grace of God, through Jesus Christ, they are conceived, injustice as their own so, if they of regeneration, or the desire thereof, as it is written : stowed upon them, through the merit of his passion, gation of the Gospel, cannot be effected without the laver By wliich words a description of the Justification of ur Saviour. And this translation, since the promul- of the lot of the saints in light, and hath delivered us The Synod furthermore declares, that in adults the that is to say, from his vocation, whereby, without from the power of darkness, and hath translated us