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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…
The position of John Preston, Doctor in Divinity ... concerning the irresistibleness of converting graceThe position of John Preston, Doctor in Divinity ... concerning the irresistiblenesse of converting grace
London: printed by J.G. for Nath. Webb and Will. Grantham, 1654
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2. They also defend, That the Will is only stirred up by moral or assisting Grace, knocking at the door of it, and admonishing it, not that it is changed by habitual Grace, healing and renewing it: For these are their words, There is no reason why moral Grace, that is morally persuading, may not make a natural man spiritual. But we suppose, that the will is quickened and renewed by the infusion of habitual Grace, that is of a new quality imprinted on the Will, which is as an inward principle enlivening and changing the Will, from whence all good inclinations and operations do proceed.
2. They also defend, That the Will is onely stirred up by morall or assisting Grace, knocking at the doore of it, and admonishing it, not that it is changed by habituall Grace, healing and renewing it: For these are their words, There is no reason why morall Grace, that is morally perswading, may not make a naturall man spirituall. But we suppose, that the will is quickned and renewed by the infusion of habituall Grace, that is of a new quality imprinted on the Will, which is as an inward principle enlivening and changing the Will, from whence all good inclinations and operations do proceed.
3. They hold, That the Will is otherwise concerned in Conversion, than in an active way, We maintain, that the Will in the first act of Conversion is partly passive, and partly active, that is, ⟨p. 4⟩first Passive, then Active, and so it worketh together with God, not partly by a natural ability, and partly by a supernatural strength, received from grace, passing by, but by virtue of a power wholly supernatural, which is conferred by infused and quickening grace, according to that of Augustine, To will, is of our selves, but to will well, both partly and wholly, is of grace.
3. They hold, That the Will is otherwise concerned in Conversion, than in an active way, We maintain, that the Will in the first act of Conversion is partly passive, and partly active, that is,