Top Highlights

• This election was made before the foundation of the world: the elect were determined to everlasting life, and the non-elect to everlasting death. Christ’s atonement was for the elect alone. Those whom God had chosen nevertheless had to persevere in their faith, a gift bestowed by God.
• God had given to his creatures the capacity to establish laws for regulating their affairs which were not based directly on revelation, but on reason. While some forms of law are necessary for human survival, there are others which reason teaches to be ‘fit and convenient’.
• Reason fills in the particulars where Scripture is silent.
• The Synod of Dort (1618–19)
• importance of the sacraments as a means of grace.