Ephesians 2:8

For by grace, the free favour of God, as Ephesians 2:5, are ye, even ye Ephesians, Gentiles, who had not such promises made to you as the Jews had, Ephesians 2:12, saved, from first to last, from your calling, Ephesians 2:5, to your glorification, Ephesians 2:6. Objection. How are believers said to be saved, when they are not yet glorified? Answer.

1. Because Christ their Head is glorified.

2. Because their salvation, begun in their effectual calling, shall be as certainly accomplished in them as it is begun in them, and perfected in their Head, Christ. Through faith; by which ye lay hold on the grace offered you in the gospel. Faith is not considered here as a work done by us, but as an instrument or means applying the grace and salvation tendered to us. And that not of yourselves; not for your own worth, nor by your own strength. It is the gift of God; that ye are saved is the gift of God, and therefore free and purely by grace. God is opposed to self: gift relates not merely to faith immediately preceding, but to the whole sentence.