necessitatingly

Who ever said that “God by exhortations doth influence the wills of men upon such terms as to make them unfrustrably and necessitatingly willing to persevere?”

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

He tells us also, “That in ease men be caused necessitatingly and unavoidably to act righteously, it will take away all rewardableness from their actings; and the reason is, because such a necessitating of them makes them merely passive, they having not any internal principle of their own to contract such a necessity;” which discourse is pursued with many other words to the same purpose.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

God doth not make use of the said exhortations to influence or affect the wills of the saints upon any such terms as thereby to make them infallibly, unfrustrably, necessitatingly, willing to persevere, or to do the things upon which perseverance dependeth.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

But there is proof tendered you of all this from 1 Cor.iii. 9, where ministers are said to “co-operate with God, which they cannot do unless it be with the same kind of efficiency,” (well said!) “and that when one works necessitatingly and another by persuasion, they cannot be said to co - operate, no more than one that runs and another that walks can be said to walk together.”

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

For those terms of “ravishingly or necessitatingly,” which are opposed to this moral persuasion, whereunto the operations of God for the production of any good in us are tied up and confined, we have been now so inured to them that they do not at all startle us.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

“Unfrustrably, necessitatingly willing to persevere?”

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

But the reason why the acts of God intimated are moral is, “because they persuade the will only, or work persuadingly, not ravishingly or necessitatingly.”

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966