Heb.

xii.
15.) This must be previously examined, with more care, by the Scriptures, to be able to teach it with full assurance to others." Such is the Arminians Confession of Faith, to which they gave the name of Remonstrance, and thence were styled Remonstrants.

It was drawn up by Utengobard, Minister at the Hague, and signed by forty-six Ministers.

It was probably made in concert with Grotius, the intimate friend of Utengobard, and at that time wholly employed in the subjects which were disputed by the Arminians and Gomarists.
To resume in few words the doctrine of the Arminians, we shall say with Bossuet[71], their principles were, That there is no absolute election, nor gratuitous preference, by which God prepares for certain chosen persons, and for them alone, the infallible means of bringing them to glory; but that God offers to all men, and especially to those to whom the gospel is preached, sufficient means to convert themselves; which some make use of; and others not, without employing any other for the Elect, than for the Reprobate: so that election is always conditional, and a man may come short of it by failing in the condition: from whence they conclude, first, that justifying grace may be lost totally, that is, without any degree of it being left; and lost finally, that is, without its ever being recovered: secondly, that there can be no assurance of salvation.
FOOTNOTES: [71] Hist.

des Variations, Lib.xiv.12.