A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §63 · Samuel Strimesius

Controv. IX: Perseverance of the truly just — uncertain necessity, and possible total final fall from grace and faith

IX. Next comes perseverance of the truly just — regenerate people once justified by faith and already set in grace — treated as if that standing were neither sure nor necessary, and as if the same people could leave grace and faith altogether and for good, and so lose salvation.

At that point the Arminian dispute, Article V (pages 257–258), seems to reappear.

Compare also the Socinian controversy, LXI (pages 219–220).

Even so, we refuse to lump the Lutheran brethren in with those camps.

Latin

IX. De Perseverantia vere justorum, regenitorum (postquam semel justificati per fidem, & in statu Gratiae positi sunt) tanquam non certa aut necessaria, deque possibili eorum defectione a gratia & fide, eademque totali & finali, hinc & salute; videtur redire Controversia cum Arminian. Art. V. pag. 257. 258. Vide & Controv. cum Socinian. LXI. p. 219. 220. Nec tamen Lutheranos Fratres cum istis confundimus.

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