effectual calling

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effectual calling

  1. (theology) The invitation to come to Christ which the elect receive.
    • 1801, Robert Burns, “The Inventory. In Answer to a Mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes.”, in Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Bard, , Glasgow: Chapman & Lang, for Thomas Stewart, , →OCLC, page 48:
      He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...]