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