antecedaneously

We will, therefore, suppose that those unto whom the word is declared have antecedaneously there-unto all the help which the light of nature will afford.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

There is, as was said, no certain measure or degree of these accidents or consequents of conviction to be prescribed unto any as antecedaneously necessary to sincere conversion and sound believing; but these two things in general are so: -- 1st.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

But yet no certain rule or measure of them can be prescribed as necessary in or unto any antecedaneously unto conversion.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

We meet with nothing in this cause more frequently, than that “if our justification before God be not of works, some way or other, if they be not antecedaneously required whereunto, if they are not a previous condition of it, then there is no need of them, — men may safely live in an utter neglect of all obedience unto God.”

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

This, I say, is required in the person to be justified, in order of nature antecedaneously unto that faith whereby we are justified; which we shall prove with the ensuing arguments: — For, [1.]

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

Wherefore, our first inquiry is concerning what was proposed in the second place, — namely, What is on our part, in a way of duty, previously required thereunto; or, what is necessary to be found in us antecedaneously unto our believing unto the justification of life?

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

His granting all the elect unto Christ, to be his own, so to do and suffer for them what was antecedaneously necessary unto the actual communication of himself unto them: "Thine they were, and thou gavest them me," John xvii.

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965