The Well-Meant Offer and Reprobation
This pamphlet by Ronald Hanko presents a confessional defense of the Reformed doctrine of reprobation as taught in the Canons of Dort and Westminster Confession of Faith. Hanko demonstrates that double predestination (election and reprobation) is a historic and essential component of Calvinism, grounding his exposition in the primary confessional documents themselves.
Reprobation and the Creeds Historic and confessional Calvinism confesses not only the doctrine of election but also of reprobation or preterition. These two together are called double predestination. The Canons of Dordt, the original Five Points of Calvinism, teach the doctrine of reprobation as part of the doctrine of predestination in Head (Chapter) I, Article 15: What peculiarly tends to illustrate and recommend to us the eternal and unmerited grace of election, is the express testimony...