CD 4.6

Canons of Dort

4.6. Fifth Head of Doctrine, Article 6

But God, who is rich in mercy, according to his unchangeable purpose of election, does not wholly withdraw the Holy Spirit from his own people, even in their melancholy falls; nor suffers them to proceed so far as to lose the grace of adoption, and forfeit the state of justification, or to commit sins unto death; nor does he permit them to be totally deserted, and to plunge themselves into everlasting destruction.

For discussion

  1. WLC Q79 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
  2. WLC Q80 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?

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WLC Q79 · WLC Q80 · WLC Q81 · WCF 17.1 · 1689 17.1 · 1689 17.2 · 1689 17.3 · 1689 18.1 · 1689 18.2 · 1689 18.3 · 1689 18.4