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What does prevenient mean?

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  1. Relating to prevenience; anticipatory.
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But Jesus proclaims the coming kingdom of God as prevenient grace to the poor and sinners.
As for Mark, nothing less than God's prevenient grace could explain his presence at Silchester.
Prevenient grace was the theological underpinning of his belief that all persons were capable of being saved by faith in Christ.
But, of course, if the will determines itself only in and through such choices, free from any prevenient natural order, then it too is in itself nothing.
Then by His prevenient working within us He moves us to return.
The doctrines which Wesley emphasised in his sermons and writings are prevenient grace, present personal salvation by faith, the witness of the Spirit, and sanctification.

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