On the Romanist view God with his grace cannot enter the penetralia of the consciousness of sinful man unless man first opens the door. As Warfield continues, he points out that what is true of Romanism is true of Protestant theology so far as it is Arminian. In Arminian theology, too, God can only make salvation “possible”; he cannot actually save individual men unless they want to be saved. The moral of Warfield’s argument would seem to be easy to draw. Those who follow the lead of Reformed theologians
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