Von Uneinigkeit und Spaltung

to eradicate religion from the foundation and root; to that end it will gradually lead, what is now held almost everywhere by all to be an infallible truth and undoubted doctrine to be accepted in Holland.

XIV. God has, through his free, eternal, and unchangeable decree, according to his good pleasure, predestined some particular men—very few in comparison to others—without any prerequisite, to faith in Christ or obedience unto eternal life; and the remaining part of mankind, by the same judgment and decree, to eternal damnation eternal condemnation, for which no redemption was ordained, regardless of the fact that they were disobedient and unbelieving. And that therefore Christ Jesus did not die for all, so that he might obtain reconciliation with God for them, but for those alone whom God, with his often-mentioned decree, chose and elected unto life. And that God draws such ones alone, and no others, to himself with a power that cannot be resisted. Which no one can oppose with disobedience or otherwise. Furthermore, all are called to Christ in the word of reconciliation, but the evil ones, because they cannot—after they cannot come, and sufficient grace and help are withdrawn from them in force of the preceding decree—make their ruin and damnation greater.

XV. On the other hand, the elect those chosen for salvation, who are gifted with conversion and faith, can neither totally nor finally fall from their faith, nor be torn from Christ the Lord. Rather, whatever most grievously they might sin, such happens only out of human frailty and weakness. Therefore, everyone brings an unchangeable path, both in birth and in death, with themselves into this world, and for the most part, they are born for this; and all of this contributes to the perfection of the entire earthly realm.