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Joe k said:

Scripture does support the notion that God does bend wills,. . .

Powerfully bends is a good phrase.


[color:"0000FF"]CANONS OF DORDRECHT

THIRD AND FORTH HEADS OF DOCTRINE



Article 16.[/color] But as man by the fall did not cease to be a creature, endowed with understanding and will, nor did sin which pervaded the whole race of mankind, deprive him of the human nature, but brought upon him depravity and spiritual death; so also this grace of regeneration does not treat men as senseless stocks and blocks, nor take away their will and its properties, neither does violence thereto; but spiritually quickens, heals, corrects, and at the same time sweetly and powerfully <span style="background-color:#FFFF00">bends it</span>(the will); that where carnal rebellion and resistance formerly prevailed, a ready and sincere spiritual obedience begins to reign; in which the true and spiritual restoration and freedom of our will consist. Wherefore unless the admirable author of every good work wrought in us, man could have no hope of recovering from his fall by his own free will, by the abuse of which, in a state of innocence, he plunged himself into ruin.


William

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