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THe Arminians differ from Orthodoxal Di∣uines about Free-will in two points:
1. They teach, Hag. Con∣fer. pag. 502. & sequent. That the will of man hath some o∣peration of it selfe in the first act of our conuersion, and doth cooperate with grace. God giueth grace sufficient to conuert, but doth not so determine the will, but that it may out of it's freedome ad∣mit grace, or not.
Their main reason is, God doth not beleeue, but wee; therefore l we worke euen
in our first conuersion, other∣wise the assent should bee Gods, not ours.
2. They teach, that the will of man hath power to hinder and resist the worke of grace in his regeneration and con∣uersion. Arminius in his Orat. to the States, pag. 53. I beleeue according to the Scriptures, that grace is not (vis irresisti∣bilis) an irresistible force or power, but that many doe m resist the holy Spirit. Hag. Confer. pag. 502. The question is, whether grace, which worketh in man faith and conuersion, can∣not be hindred, but is an irresi∣stible operation, such as God v∣seth in raising the dead. They alledge to proue, ••hat man may resist grace, Act. 7. 51. Yee stiffe-necked, and of vncir∣cumcised hearts and eares, yee haue alwaies n resisted the ho∣ly Ghost. And Matth. 23. 37. How oft would I haue gathered your Children, as a Hen gathe∣reth her Chicken vnder her wings, and yee o would not.