Salvation begins with what is usually termed (and very properly) “preventing grace,”* including the first wish to please God, the first dawn of light concerning God’s will, and the first slight, transient conviction of having sinned against God. All these imply some tendency toward life, some degree of salvation, the beginning of a deliverance from a blind, unfeeling heart, quite insensible of God and the things of God. Salvation is carried on by “convincing grace,” usually in scripture termed “repentance,”