Exposition of the Canons, First Head of Doctrine, Of Divine Predestination: Article 17 (2)

The three Netherlands professors, Polyander, Thysius, and Walleus, offer the following opinion over against the Arminian proposition that there is neither election nor reprobation of young children: "There is a vast difference in the condition of those little children who are born of covenant parents and of other little children who are born of non-covenant parents, since Scripture declares the latter to be unclean alienated from Christ and from the covenant of grace." Then, after quoting from...