The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace in History (1)

* Address Delivered on our last Field day. We are Protestant Reformed. This is the name that we as churches appropriated at the time of our coming into being as a denomination. The reason for the adoption of this name, and what it expresses, is, I take it, known to us all. The adjective protestant came into use as a name in the sixteenth century, during the time of the Reforma­tion and was given to all those who had broken with that hierarchy that centered in the person of the bishop of Rome...