Exposition of the Canons, First Head of Doctrine, Of Divine Predestination: Rejection of Errors, Article 3–4

4) The condition unto salvation which God chose is, in the first place, the act of faith, which, according to the Arminians, "from its very nature is undeserving." Notice that all stress is here laid upon the conscious activity of faith, that is, the act of believing, and that this act of believing, even though admittedly undeserving, is nevertheless conceived of as a meritorious work. With the act of faith, moreover, belongs, in the second place, the "incomplete obedience of faith" as a...