The Doctrine of Sin, The Third Period, 730-1517 A.D. (17): Protestant Doctrine of Sin: According to Calvin

Indeed, Calvin teaches emphatically that the deepest reason why the gospel is a savor of death unto death is that the Lord does not attempt to save them. How numerous are the passages in Calvin's Calvinism in which the reformer emphasizes the sovereignly particular character of the mercy of the Lord as bestowed upon the elect and withheld from the reprobate. It is true that these passages appear in that part of Calvin's Calvinism which stresses Divine predestination, and to quote these passages...