Thesis LXIX. So both sides confess and teach that the grace given to those who will not obey the Gospel has enough strength to convert them, and that it fails to take effect in them only because they resist its motions and willingly put an obstacle in its way.
Conversely, they hold that believers, and those who are converted to God in earnest, could have blocked the grace that is efficacious in them if they had wished, and could have hindered its effect by their obstinacy, and that this grace laid on them no necessity of believing and turning to God.
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LXIX. Utrique ergo fatentur & docent gratiam quae datur illis qui Evangelio parere renuunt, satis virium habere ad ipsos convertendos, & propterea solum effectum suum in illis non sortiri, quod motibus ejus resistant, & voluntarie obicem illi ponant. Ex adverso vero fideles & qui serio ad Deum convertuntur, potuisse si libuisset, gratiae quae in ipsis efficax est, obicem ponere, & effectum ejus impedire sua contumacia, neque per eam gratiam ullam ipsis fuisse necessitatem impositam credendi, & se ad Deum convertendi.