Dort: how God works true conversion in the elect (article 11)
Thesis XLII. The same Synod explains how God works true conversion in the elect: 'He not only has the gospel preached to them outwardly and powerfully enlightens their minds by the Holy Spirit, so that they rightly understand and judge the things of the Spirit of God.
By the power of the same regenerating Spirit he also reaches into the innermost being of a person: he opens the closed heart, softens the hard one, circumcises the uncircumcised, and pours new qualities into the will. He makes the will alive where it was dead, good where it was bad, willing where it was unwilling, obedient where it was stubborn, and he moves and strengthens it so that, like a good tree, it can bear the fruit of good actions.' This is in the head of doctrine on man's corruption and conversion and its manner, article 11.
Latin
XLII. Quomodo autem Deus in Electis veram conversionem operetur, sic explicat eadem Synodus, Non tantum, inquit, evangelium illis externe praedicari curat, & mentem eorum per Spiritum Sanctum potenter illuminat, ut recte intelligant & dijudicent quae sunt Spiritus Dei; sed ejusdem etiam spiritus regenerantis efficacia ad intima hominis penetrat, cor clausum aperit, durum emollit, praeputiatum circumcidit, voluntati novas qualitates infundit, facitque eam ex mortua vivam, ex mala bonam, ex nolente volentem, ex refractaria morigeram, agitque & roborat eam, ut ceu arbor bona fructus bonarum actionum proferre possit. In capite doctrinae de hominis corruptione & conversione, ejusque modo articulo undecimo.