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These words are cited in* favour of free-will, as proving that men's impotency to that which is good, is not owing to any disability by the fall of Adam, but to other causes acquired by, and not born with them ; such as evil ...
Now as this appears from the context to be the plain and genuine sense of the words, they can be of no use to prove what they are cited for, and ought to have no place m the controversy about free-will, and efficacious grace.
These words are usually cited together with the former, and are urged for the same purposes ; particularly to show that Christ seriously intended the salvation of such who would not come to him for it ; and that man does not lie under ...
Though these words are not once cited or referred to by Dr. Whitby, as I remember, yet, inasmuch as the Remonstrants* have never failed to urge them in favour of the irresistibility of God's grace in conversion, and to prove that that ...
... but does not prove that Christ died for any besides his sheep, his church ; or those who are eventually true believers ; for which the Remonstrants* cite it ; for surely a brother who is truly one, though weak, is a sheep of Christ, ...
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The Cause of God and Truth: In Four Parts with a Vindication of Part IV John Gill Limited preview - 2001 |