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 1

Introductory Remarks The necessity of this Rejection of Errors is, of course fundamentally the same in this chapter as in the other chapters of our Canons. That necessity is, in the first place, a matter of principle: to every positive there is a negative. And it is, in the second place, a matter of history: the Arminians and their errors were a matter of historical fact, and it was incumbent upon the Reformed churches to maintain and defend the truth antithetically, that is, with rejection of...