second causes and especially with the human will” while simultaneously leaving the “contingency and liberty of the will … unimpaired.”71 Scripture presumes that determinism and genuine human freedom are compatible, in other words, even though it does not explain the mechanics of how this is possible, and “the method of this reconciliation cannot in this life be clearly and perfectly explained by us.”72 As Turretin summarizes the matter, when we eschew eisegesis and begin with the data of Scripture,
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