Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine — Article 7

Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine — Article 7

_Of the corruption of man, his conversion to God, and the manner thereof_

This mystery of his will, God discovered to but a small number under the old testament; under the new, he reveals himself to many, without any distinction of people. The cause of this dispensation is not to be ascribed to the superior worth of one nation above another, nor to their making a better use of the light of nature, but results wholly from the sovereign good pleasure and unmerited love of God. Hence they, to whom so great and so gracious a blessing is communicated, above their desert, or rather notwithstanding their demerits, are bound to acknowledge it with humble and grateful hearts, and with the apostle to adore, not curiously to pry into the severity and justice of God’s judgments displayed in others, to whom this grace is not given.