The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace (2)

(Address delivered on our last Field day) "It is not my purpose," so I wrote, "to delineate here and now on this truth (the truth that God's grace is sov­ereign) but rather to investigate how this truth fared in history and in what esteem it has been held by the Chris­tian church from the age of the apostles until the present time. We saw that Augustine was/ the first church father of note to vigorously maintain in opposition to Pelagianism, that man by nature is spiritually dead in sin,...