“And a certain woman named Lydia… which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.”
Acts 16:14
“The hand of the Lord… set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones… and, lo, they were very dry. Then said He unto me, ‘Prophesy… Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’ So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.”
Eze. 37:1-10
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Subsection
Compatibility of Irresistible & Resistible Grace
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Order of Contents
Articles 5
Book 1
Historical 1
Quotes 3
Latin 1
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Articles
1600’s
Rutherford, Samuel – Rutherford’s Examination of Arminianism: the Tables of Contents with Excerpts from Every Chapter tr. Charles Johnson & Travis Fentiman (1638-1642; 1668; RBO, 2019)
ch. 8, ‘On the State of Grace’
4. ‘Whether a distinction of grace between sufficient and efficacious is to be admitted? We deny against the Remonstrants.’, pp. 88-89
ch. 11, ‘On the Manner of Conversion’
7. ‘Whether because God converts with irresistible force, the will is therefore coerced and freedom overturned? We deny against the Remonstrants.’, pp. 101-2
7. ‘Whether because God infallibly determines the will to one thing, He overturns liberty?’, pp. 102-3
Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 15th Topic
4. ‘Is effectual calling so denominated from the event (or from congruity) or from the supernatural operation of grace itself? The former we deny; the latter we affirm against the Romanists and Arminians.’ 517
5. ‘Whether in the first moment of conversion man is merely passive or whether his will cooperates in some measure with the grace of God. The former we affirm and deny the latter against all Synergists.’ 542
6. ‘Whether efficacious grace operates only by a certain moral suasion which man is able either to receive or to reject. Or whether it operates by an invincible and omnipotent suasion which the will of man cannot resist. The former we deny; the latter we affirm against the Romanists and Arminians.’ 546
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1800’s
Cunningham, William – Historical Theology (1863), vol. 2
‘Universal & Effectual Calling’, p. 394 ff.
‘Efficacious & Irresistible Grace’, p. 405 ff.
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Book
1600’s
Taylor, Francis – The Faith of the Church of England Concerning God’s Work on Man’s Will, Publicly Confirmed by the Subscriptions of all the Famous Martyrs & Divines Thereof: faithfully gathered out of the Authentic Records of the Church (London, 1641) 48 pp. ToC
Taylor was a Westminster divine.
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Historical
On Aquinas & the Reformed
Johnson, Charles – ‘Thomas & TULIP’ (2020) 20 paragraphs at Reformed Theology Delatinized
“This article will address the claim that Thomas Aquinas held to an Augustinian doctrine of predestination essentially compatible with that of the Reformed Churches, showing in what ways Thomas’s doctrine is compatible with the doctrine of the Reformed Churches and important ways in which it differs.”
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Quotes
1800’s
John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan
“The Calvinist affirms a grace of God towards his own children which the Arminian denies towards any creature; so that Calvinism is an intensive exhibition of divine grace, while Arminianism presents us with an extensive and diffusive one.”
“By God’s grace we do not give ourselves to Christ and receive Him; but receive Him and give ourselves to Him. Ay, something goes even before that: He apprehends us, whereupon we follow Him.”
“Woe… for the man who has not experience of more drawing than he is able to given an account of in words.”
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – Select Theological Disputations (1669), vol. 5
On Subsequent Grace, pt. 1 716
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. pt. 3 733
. pt. 4 741
. pt. 5 749-63
‘Subsequent grace’ was used by Romanists in distinction from prevenient grace. For a definition of subsequent grace, see p. 718 (bot).
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Related Pages
The Common Operations of the Spirit
The Sincere Free Offer of the Gospel