Graceprevenient

abounding

free

unmerited

cheap

irresistible

indefectiblesubsequent

efficacious

habitual

uncreated

sanctifying

amazing

amazing

Graceprevenient

abounding

free

unmerited

cheap

irresistible

indefectiblesubsequent

efficacious

habitual

uncreated

sanctifying

amazing

Grace

LORD we pray thee that thy grace maye always prevente and folowe us, and make us continuallye to be

geven to all goode workes thorough Jesus Christe our Lorde.

Thomas Cranmer, 1549

GRACE: the supernatural assistance of God

bestowed upon a rational being with a view to his

sanctification.

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

St. Augustine, 354-430

I have no hope at all, but in your great mercy.

Grant what you command and command

what you will.

St. Augustine, Confessions X.40

Cupiditasv.

Caritas

Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry.

Lear to Edgar, King Lear, IV.6

Pelagius, c. 354 - 420/440

Everything good and everything evil, for which we are worthy of praise or blame, is done by us,

not born with us.

attributed to Pelagius

May one be pardoned and retain th’offense?

Claudius at prayer, Hamlet, III.3

John Calvin, 1509-1564

Original sin is seen to be an hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature diffused into all

parts of the soul.

Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, II.i

Use every man after his desert, and who shall

’scape whipping?

Hamlet to Polonius, II.2

Jacobus Arminius, 1560-1609

The free will of man towards the true good

is ... lost. And its powers are ... useless unless they

be assisted by grace.

Arminius

Haiti, 2010

Flight 1549, 2009

’Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

Horatio to Hamlet, V.1

God our Savior ... desires everyone to be saved.

1 Timothy 2:3-4, NRSV