Hannah Adams

“ For how are we capable of performing our duty, or of regulating our actions by a law, commanding good and forbidding evil, if our minds are bent to nothing but what is evil? Then sin must be natural to us; and if natural, then necessary with regard to us; and if necessary, then no sin. For what is natural to us, as hunger, thirst, &c. we can by no means hinder; and what we can by no means hinder, is not our sin. Therefore mankind are not totally depraved. ”

“ If Christ died for those who perish, and for those who do not perish, he died for all. That he died for those who do not perish, is confessed by all; and if he died for any who may or shall perish, there is the same reason to affirm that he died for all who perish. ”

“ Were an irresistible power necessary to the conversion of sinners, no man could be converted sooner than he is; because before this irresistible action came upon him, he could not be converted, and when it -came upon him he could not resist its operation. And therefore no man could reasonably be blamed for having lived so long in an unconverted state, and it could not be praiseworthy in any person who was converted, since no man can resist an overpowering operation.
V. That true believers may fall from their faith, and forfeit finally their state of grace. ”