Exposition of the Canons, Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine, Of the Corruption of Man, His Conversion to God, and the Manner Thereof: Rejection of Errors, Article 5 (1)

Article 5. Who teach: That the, corrupt and natural man can so well use the common grace (by which they understand the light of nature), or the gifts still left him after the fall, that he Can gradually gain by their good use a greater, viz., the evangelical or saving grace and salvation itself. And that in this way God on his part shows himself ready to reveal Christ unto all men, since he applies to all sufficiently and efficiently the means necessary to conversion. For the experience of all...