我不知道加尔文老人家究竟想表达什么，先活过来确实是他说的，但是在他的Commentary on John, Charpter 1, John1:13 确实这么说了一句：

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.

可见，今天的加尔文主义者，喊“信心先于重生”是魔鬼的道理的，难道连你们门派的创始人也被定罪了？