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The Jesus Trip, “Free Will & Hell.”

Randolph Foster, Objections to Calvinism As It Is, ch. 8: “The Will.” (Wesleyan).

Gospel Coalition, “The Battle of the Will, Part 4: John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards.”

P. C. Nelson, Bible Doctrines (Gospel Publishing House, 2009), pp. 42-43. “The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit cooperate with the sinner in salvation…In regeneration, we become partakers of the divine nature, enabling us to ‘escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires’ (2 Peter 1:4).”

Westminster Confession 10.3-4. “Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth: so also are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word…Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the laws of that religion they do profess. And, to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.” For Scripture proofs, click here and go to page 48.

Dr. Robert Peterson, Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment (P&R, 1995), ch. 12.

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Teachings, vol. 2 (Zondervan, 2012), p. 180ff.

—. John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994), p. 269ff.

Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, The Theology of John Wesley (Abingdon Press, 2011), ch. 2.

John Wesley, “Original Sin.”

—. The Doctrine of Original Sin.

Jonathan Edwards, A Careful and Strict Enquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of That Freedom of Will (London, 1754).