Westminster Confession of Faith

All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased in His appointed and accepted time effectually to call,²¹⁶ by His Word and Spirit,²¹⁷ out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;²¹⁸ enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God,²¹⁹ taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a heart of flesh;²²⁰ renewing their wills, and, by His almighty power determining them to that which is good,²²¹ and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ:²²² yet so, as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace.²²³

This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man,²²⁴ who is altogether passive therein, until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit,²²⁵ he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.²²⁶

Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ through the Spirit,²²⁷ who worketh when, and where, and how He pleaseth:²²⁸ so also, are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.²²⁹

Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word,²³⁰ and may have some common operations of the Spirit,²³¹ yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved:²³² much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the law of that religion they do profess.²³³ And to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.²³⁴