"You see where it sticks, not in simple inability to believe, but in an inability joined with an enmity; (unbelievers) neither can come nor will come to Christ. It is true, all that do come to Christ, come willingly; but thanks be to the grace of God, that has freed and persuaded the will, else they never had been willing to come...This aversion of the will and affections from God is one of the main roots of original sin. No argument can prevail to bring the soul to Christ till this be mastered and overpowered by the Father's drawing...He that comes to heaven may say, Lord, if I had had mine own way, I had never come here: if thou hadst not drawn me, I should never have come to thee. O the riches of the grace of God! O unparalleled mercy and goodness, not only to prepare such a glory as this for an unworthy soul, but to put forth the exceeding greatness of thy power afterwards to draw an unwilling soul to the enjoyment of it!"
- John Flavel, The Method of Grace, p. 91
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