Power To Believe Before Believing?

"When Holmes says "none has power to choose salvation or to believe in Christ," he teaches against Hardshellism, for Hardshells believe that "power to choose" and "power to believe" precedes actual choosing and believing. They teach that those who believe are they who have been previously given "power" to do so. But, Holmes believed that those who believe are not they who had a power to do so before they believed!"

Taken from my posting "John Clark & Obadiah Holmes Hardshells?" (here)

Not only did Obadiah Holmes believe that the unbeliever had no power to believe prior to believing, but so did all those Old Baptists of the 17th century! Our Hardshell brothers teach that one must be given power to believe before he believes. And, in this day, they have gone so far as to teach that those given power to believe may never believe! Heresy.