2. The Objection against the Gospel Call Just as some people have so emphasized the general gospel call as to severely downplay God’s sovereign election, others have so emphasized election as to minimize the gospel call. The various forms of this error are often called hyper-Calvinism. However, we must acknowledge that this label has difficulties. Often it is wrongly applied to ...

I will continue to add sources to this list in the future. See also Travis Fentiman’s Faith as a Non-Meritorious Condition & Instrument of Justification for other citations.Here are several from me for now: Andreas Rivetus (1572–1651): 29. Furthermore, we do not say that the Gospel and the New Testament demand no condition at all, for the condition of faith and new obe...

Sec. 212. Synods at Arles on the Doctrine of Grace in the Years 475–480 Two other Gallican Synods at Arles and Lyons, between 475 and 480, were occasioned by the Gallican priest Lucidus, the first who was known as a Predestinarian.1 Prosper Tiro indeed says in his Chronicle that, in the twenty-third year of the Emperor Honorius, that is, a.d. 417, the sect of the Predestinarians...

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