Book Reviews
2007-11-01
November 2007 83 Preparatory Grace in the Puritans inclination of themselves to comply with such a command. The overwhelming evidence of Scripture is that man is dead in sins and unable to produce one good desire. One final appeal is made to Luke 1:17, “And he [John the Baptist] shall go before him … to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” This text does not teach preparatory grace, but simply that God had prepared a people for Himself whom He would save in the fullness of time when...