Exposition of the Canons, Fifth Head of Doctrine, Of the Perseverance of the Saints: Article 6 (1)

Article 6. But God, who is rich in mercy, according to his unchangeablepurpose of election, does not wholly withdraw the Holy Spirit from his own people, even ii their melancholy falls; nor suffers them to proceed SO far as to lose the grace of adoption, and forfeit the state of justification, or to commit the sin unto death; nor does he permit them to be totally deserted, and to plunge themselves into everlasting destruction. Article 6. But God, who is rich in mercy, according to his...