我不知道加爾文老人家究竟想表達什麼，先活過來確實是他說的，但是在他的Commentary on John, Charpter 1, John1:13 確實這麼說了一句：

It may be thought that the Evangelist reverses the natural order by making regeneration to precede faith, whereas, on the contrary, it is an effect of faith, and therefore ought to be placed later. I reply, that both statements perfectly agree; because by faith we receive the incorruptible seed, (1 Peter 1:23,) by which we are born again to a new and divine life.

可見，今天的加爾文主義者，喊“信心先於重生”是魔鬼的道理的，難道連你們門派的創始人也被定罪了？