Divine Sovereignty and Human Repsonsibility March 3, 2006
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Michael Haykin has a wonderful post "Puritan Balance About Coming to Christ" in which he shares an insight from John Flavel on how God accomplishes his salvific will without obliterating man's personality:
Coming to Christ shows the voluntariness of the soul in its motion to Christ. True, there is no coming without the Fathers drawing; but that drawing has nothing of compulsion in it; it does not destroy, but powerfully and with an overcoming sweetness persuades the will. It is not forced or driven, but it comes; being made willing in the day of Gods power. Psalm 110:3. [The Method of Grace (New York: American Tract Society, n.d.), 201].
This makes me want to read Flavel for myself. Which, I am sure, is exactly what Haykin intends.
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