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I believe that the Westminster Confession of Faith's answer is right on target:

[color:"blue"]The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter X
Of Effectual Calling[/color]

III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit,[12] who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth:[13] so also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.[14]

12. Gen. 17:7; Luke 1:15; 18:15-16; Acts 2:39; John 3:3, 5; I John 5:12
13. John 3:8
14. John 16:7-8; I John 5:12; Acts 4:12

There is the "outward call" which is common to all men, e.g., through the preaching of the Word whereby sinners are called to repent and believe upon Christ. And, there is that special "inward call", aka: effectual calling, which is the sovereign and sure work of the Holy Spirit wherein a sinner, having been regenerated is brought under conviction and flees to Christ, believing upon Him and trusting in His atoning work. Those incapable of comprehending the "outward call", yet who by God's immutable counsel are to be saved at His appointed time, are called "inwardly" so that their souls are enlightened, united to Christ, reconciled to God and thus become adopted sons and daughters of the Living God.

In His Grace,