Total Depravity (1): Dr. Abraham Kuyper’s Defense of the Unscriptural Proposition That Natural Man Performs Real Positive Genuine Good Works

Scripture abundantly testifies, so it appeared, that natural man is totally depraved, that the civic good works which he performs are sin, that, therefore, the depraved sinner sins only. It was also shown how that St. Augus­tine, John Calvin, and our Standards are in full agreement with the scriptural teaching that man is totally depraved to the extent that he can do no good, whatsoever. Thereupon I asserted and proved how that the late Dr. Abraham Kuyper taught in his "De gemeene gratie" that...