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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
You see now what our opinion is, which we have been the longer in opening, because the explication of it is its chief confirmation, and the confutation of the contrary. Besides, it is a very difficult thing to express what the Arminians hold in this dispute, because they cover and wrap up their opinion in so doubtful and specious words.
You see now what our opinon is, which we have beene the longer in opening, because the explication of it is its chiefe confirmation, and the confutation of the contrary. Besides, it is a very difficult thing to expresse what the Arminians hold in this dispute, because they cover and wrap up their opinion in so doubtfull and specious words.
There yet remain the Arguments, by which our opinion is so to be confirmed, which I shall be brief in: Two things are to be proved:
There yet remaine the Arguments, by which our opinion is so to be confirmed, which I shall be brief in: Two things are to be proved:
1. That qualities or habits may be infused into the Will, which they deny, because they suppose, that such an infusion doth utterly destroy and take away the nature and liberty of the Will.
1. That qualityes or habits may be infused into the Will, which they deny, because they suppose, that such an infusion doth utterly destroy and take away the nature and liberty of the Will.