Note A.
The new school divines agree with the old school in teaching that previous to regeneration every moral act is sin and only sin, and that God has made no promises to unregenerate doings, which would obligate him to re-create the soul, in return for such performances.
On the contrary, they urge man himself to change his own heart, as that which is possible without any aid from God. And the interference of God to regenerate is represented by them as an act of sovereign, elective mercy, unbought by any labor or striving on the part of man.
Still, they encourage the use of the means of grace as the way in which God ordinarily meets the sinner, in bestowing this gift. They urge that experience proves, that though regeneration is not promised to the use of the means of grace, it is more frequently bestowed on those who use them than on those who neglect them.