The position of John Preston, Doctor in Divinity ... concerning the irresistibleness of converting…The position of John Preston, Doctor in Divinity ... concerning the irresistiblenesse of converting…

This opinion being asserted, the Arminians are constrained to defend these Positions more false than those of the Jesuits.

1. They defend a conditional Decree grounded on the prescience of Faith, for if the Will, supposing all the actions of God toward it, may convert or not, believe or not; it is necessary that God first foresee who will believe, and who not, before he can choose some to life, and appoint others to wrath. But the ⟨p. 5⟩Jesuits hold the Decree to be absolute, and Faith to be an effect or fruit following thereupon.

1. They defend a conditionall Decree grounded on the praescience of Faith, for if the Will, supposing all the actions of God toward it, may convert or not, believe or not; it is necessary that God first foresee who will believe, and who not, before he can choose some to life, and appoint others to wrath. But the ⟨p. 5⟩Jesuites hold the Decree to be absolute, and Faith to be an effect or fruit following thereupon.

2. The Jesuits grant that more grace, as to the manner of dispensing it, is bestowed upon those who are converted, than upon those who are not. The Arminians contrariwise, that more grace (as to the manner) is often conferred upon the unconverted than the converted.

2. The Jesuites grant that more grace, as to the manner of dispensing it, is bestowed upon those who are converted, than upon those who are not. The Arminians contrariwise, that more grace (as to the manner) is often conferred upon the unconverted than the converted.