nascent regenerating effect of Prevenient Grace.”7 This involves Maddox in making an important shift, conceiving of the continuum of grace8 as a continuum of regeneration. Accordingly, he concludes that Wesley understood faith to be “justifying from its earliest degree—i.e., the mere inclination to ‘fear God and work righteousness.’ ” However, lacking “clear assurance,” this “nascent faith was not yet the fullness of Christian faith” but was “the faith of a ‘servant.’ ”9 Thus, the difference between
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