Hyper-Calvinists in this period maintained that because the unsaved could not respond to the call of Christ in the preaching of the gospel without the enablement of God, then it was not their responsibility to repent and believe; consequently, pastors had no duty to exhort the lost to come to Christ. Carey’s close friend, Andrew Fuller, had handily refuted this error in his tremendous exegetical study The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation (1785; 1801 [2nd ed.]). In this work, Fuller demonstrated from