Part Two, Chapter 2. On the Kuyperian View of Common Grace

- What was the development with respect to the Reformed doctrine after the Synod of Dordrecht? There was very little progress in the development of the doctrine of sin and grace according to the Reformed conception. The eighteenth century presents a most miserable picture. Rationalism lifted up its head and claimed to possess the sole right of supremacy in the realm of theology. Whatever was not logically and rationally comprehensible it dismissed as unknow­able; it laughed the miraculous out...