There is no state between death and life, between being unregenerate and being regenerate. The unregenerate person is a natural man who can do no spiritual good, who follows the things of the flesh and lives under the dominion of sin. The preparatory protocols leading to regeneration are actually not preparations unto, and even less a cause of, regeneration. For regeneration is a direct, almighty, and irresistible work of God under which a person remains entirely passive. If those so-called protocols and operations possess a spiritual character, they are a fruit and proof of regeneration; and
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Predatory grace refuted
