What remains against the Reformed rests on a twisted reading: of himself man can fall from faith entirely
Whatever quarrel with the Reformed is left turns chiefly on a wrenching of their meaning.
Our side, as already shown against the Remonstrants, concedes this:
1. Take a person by himself and in his own strength — that is, in his frailty — and he can all too easily leave the faith, yes, leave it wholly.
Left to himself he is clay pottery, a soft infant, a defenseless lamb, nothing but flesh and blood, a bruised reed, loose sand, always apt to slide unless God holds him — vanity itself, sheer nothing.
Latin
QUOD reliquum est controversiae cum Reformatis, fere in detorta horum sententia consistit. Fatentur enim nostri, ut contra Remonstr. visum, 1. Hominem ex se, & in suis viribus, idest, infirmitatibus consideratum, nimis quam posse deficere a fide, & totaliter quidem. Utpote qui ex se vas fictile, tenellus infans, ovicula imbellis, nonnisi caro & sanguis, fragilis arundo, mobilis arena, semper labilis sine Deo, quin ipsa vanitas ac merum nihil.