The Lambeth Articles (1595)
The Lambeth Articles (1595) represent an official Anglican ecclesiastical statement affirming key Reformed doctrines of predestination, including unconditional election, reprobation, the perseverance of saints, and the limitation of saving grace to the elect. Drawn up by leading Cambridge divinity scholars and formally approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English prelates, these articles provide important historical documentation of Reformed theology's influence on the established church during the late 16th century.
1. God from eternity has predestined some men to life, and reprobated some to death. 2. The moving or efficient cause of predestination to life is not the foreseeing of faith, or of perseverance, or of good works, or of anything innate in the person of the predestined, but only the will of the good pleasure of God. 3. There is a determined and certain number of predestined, which cannot be increased or diminished. 4. Those not predestined to salvation are inevitably condemned on account of...