The Nassau-Wetterau theologians at Dort
Thesis LXXVIII. A clear case is the Nassau-Wetterau theologians' judgment on the third and fourth articles, preserved in the Acts of the Synod of Dort. In setting out their thesis on what God intends when he calls people, they grant that preaching and enlightenment, a grace hypocrites have in common with the godly, suffices for conversion in one respect: at the level of secondary causes or means, in that conversion requires no further means beyond these, whether of outward preaching or of inward enlightenment.
Taken without qualification, though, it does not suffice, that is, without the grace of being drawn from within; and without that grace, Scripture declares, it is impossible for anyone to be converted and come to Christ.
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LXXVIII. Hoc praesertim videre est in judicio Theologorum Nassovio-Wateravicorum circa tertium & quartum articulum, quod habetur in actis Synodi Dordracenae. Ibi enim explicantes suam Thesin de intentione Dei in hominis vocatione, dicunt gratiam praedicationis & illuminationis, quae hypocritis cum piis communis est, ad conversionem secundum quid sufficientem esse, hoc est, in ordine causarum secundarum, seu mediorum; quatenus nulla alia conversionis media, sive externae praedicationis, sive internae illuminationis, praeter illa requiruntur: Sed non esse sufficientem ad conversionem simpliciter, hoc est, sine internae tractionis gratia; sine qua quenquam converti & ad Christum venire Scriptura pronunciat impossibile.