antecedaneous

Conviction of sin is another effect of the preaching of the word antecedaneous unto real conversion to God.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

I call it their own ability, in opposition to all outward aids and assistances from others, or an antecedaneous prescription of a form of words unto themselves.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Some of these make the decree of election to be “antecedaneous to the death of Christ” (as themselves absurdly speak), or the decree of the death of Christ: then frame a twofold election; [4] — one, of some to be the sons; the other, of the rest to be servants.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

Others [5] make a general conditionate decree of redemption to be antecedaneous to election; which they assert to be the first discriminating purpose concerning the sons of men, and to depend on the alone good pleasure of God.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

Now, that God should require their repentance as an antecedaneous, previous qualification to his receiving them into covenant, and yet in the covenant undertake to give them that repentance, as he doth in promising them to take away their hearts of stone and give them new hearts of flesh, is a direct contradiction, fit only for a part of that divinity which is in the whole an express contradiction to the word and mind of God.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966