Irresistible Grace, not Coercion
When the wind beat upon the man in Esop, it made him only draw his cloak the closer round him. But when the sun made him hot, he by his own will threw off the cloak, which the storm without had not torn from him. You might be got out of this room in two ways: a strong man might come and thrust you out, or a beautiful lady might invite and thereby draw you! Now, it is an utter misconception to suppose that by “irresistible grace” is meant an ab extra coercing influence. Grace acts from within, through the will. The man becomes willing: and so there is no resistance or desire to offer it. To be “made willing in the day of God’s power” is the highest liberty.
Princetoniana
p. 178
Charles Adamson Salmond. Princetoniana. Charles and a. A. Hodge: With Class and Table Talk of Hodge, the Younger, Etc. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1888.