The Free Offer entails Free Will

"Acceptance of the Gospel is a piece of the Gospel wrought in the soul by Jehovah the Spirit, which your tenderers of Salvation, either overlook or deny. Neither can offers be a fit means calculated to justify God, in condemning men for refusing a doctrine which was never preached to them; but rather offers justify God in condemning a minister, who, instead of preaching to conscience, offers his proposals, and leaves his messages at a great distance off-hand, as seems good to the profferer to fix them in mid-way, and wait for the sinner's acceptance. Offers lay all down for acceptance at mid-way block, and never get further. Whatever it be that is offered, Doctrine or Salvation, before the elect, or before the non-elect, or before all promiscuously, there it sticks in mid-way, waiting for a motion from man's free-will to accept. This is in no ways preaching the Gospel to Sinners!" - Joseph Hussey, God's Operations of Grace, pg. 43

The free offer entails free will. It ultimately leads to the errors of alter calls which Finney made popular.


David J. Engelsma also says in Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel, "The only alternative to the truth of sovereign grace is the teaching that salvation depends upon the free will of the sinner. This is another aspect of the theory of the offer to which a Reformed man objects. We appreciate the fact that in the past defenders of the offer within the Reformed sphere have vehemently repudiated free will, despite the inconsistency of their repudiation with the doctrine of the offer itself. Nevertheless, the teaching of free will is necessarily implied in the doctrine of the offer and can be repudiated only by repudiating the offer." - Pg. 48