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…

5. The Jesuits judge, That all those, whom the Holy-Ghost intended to convert, are certainly and infallibly converted. The Arminians utterly deny it; whence they are commonly bold to say, That the Holy-Ghost may be resisted, even then when it works upon a man with intention of his conversion.

5. The Jesuites judge, That all those, whom the Holy-Ghost intended to convert, are certainely and infallibly converted. The Arminians utterly deny it; whence they are commonly bold to say, That the Holy-Ghost may be resisted, even then when it works upon a man with intention of his conversion.

These things being premised, I will now briefly lay down what our opinion is: But that our judgement may be throughly understood; we must know that the conversion of a man is perfected in these four degrees:

These things being premised, I will now briefly lay downe what our opinion is: But that our judgement may be throughly understood; we must know that the conversion of a man is perfected in these four degrees:

1. God infuseth into the whole Soul, and so into the Will, a habit or quality of holiness, renewing it, and making it, of evil good, of unwilling willing; by which means, that which belongs to the nature of the Will, is preserved entire, but that which was corrupt is rectified.

1. God infuseth into the whole Soule, and so into the Will, a habit or quality of holinesse, renewing it, and making it, of evill good, of unwilling willing; by which meanes, that which belongs to the nature of the Will, is preserved entire, but that which was corrupt is rectified.