12. Absurdities about instantaneous faith, and thus instantaneous salvation. Likewise about immediate mercy, because this makes one with instantaneous faith.
Although indeed man is reformed and regenerated successively even to the end of life, and then to eternity.
And he can never be perfectly regenerated, only as to the most general things, and some general things under them.
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