Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, who works when, and where, and how He pleases: so also are all other elect persons who are not capable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.
Nowhere is the sovereignty of God in the salvation of men better illustrated than in the cases of elect persons dying in infancy or rendered incapable (e.g., by mental handicap) of responding to the preached gospel. This is a doctrine of immense comfort. It assures us that of all the people given to Christ by the Father he will lose none of them. There is no circumstance of man that thwarts the sovereign election of God, no obstacle that can be thrown in the path of God's accomplished purposes. The Spirit of God regenerates a human being at the appointed time. He has no need of an "age of accountability;" he is not rendered impotent by mental incapacity. Faith and repentance, as we shall see, are the gifts of God, gifts he bestows upon whom he pleases.
Tomorrow: Those who are not sheep of the Good Shepherd.
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