The Works of Arminius, Volume 1
Overview
Volume 1 includes:
- Orations
- Declaration of Sentiments
- Apology Against Thirty-One Defamatory Articles
- Nine Questions Exhibited for the Purpose of Ontaining an Answer from Each of the Professors of Divinity, and the Replies which Jacob Arminius Gave to Them: With Other Nine Opposite Articles
- Remarks on the Preceding Questions
- Twenty-Five Public Disputations
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For the rest of Jacob Arminius’ works, check out The Works of Arminius (4 vols.)
Top Highlights
“For the present, I will only briefly say, ‘I believe that sinners are accounted righteous solely by the obedience of Christ; and that the righteousness of Christ is the only meritorious cause on account of which God pardons the sins of believers and reckons them as righteous as if they had perfectly fulfilled the law. But since God imputes the righteousness of Christ to none except believers, I conclude that, in this sense, it may be well and properly said, To a man who believes, Faith is imputed for righteousness through grace, because God hath set forth his Son, Jesus Christ, to be a propitiation, a throne of grace, [or mercy seat] through faith in his blood.’” (Page 264)
“And at one time I certainly did say, with an explanation subjoined to it, ‘that it was possible for believers finally to decline or fall away from faith and salvation.’ But at no period have I asserted, ‘that believers do finally decline or fall away from faith or salvation.’” (Page 281)
“Since therefore faith is said ‘to be foreseen by God in those who are to be saved,’ those causes, without the intervention of which there could be no faith, are not removed, but are rather appointed. Among those causes, I consider the preventing, accompanying and succeeding [subsequent] grace of God, as the principal. And I say, with Fulgentius, ‘Those persons will be saved, or they have been predestinated and elected, who, God foreknew, would believe by the assistance of his preventing grace, (I add and of his accompanying grace,) and would persevere by the aid of his subsequent grace.’ In this first member, then, there is nothing except truth of the greatest purity.” (Pages 287–288)
- Title: The Works of Arminius, Volume 1
- Authors: Jacob Arminius, James Nichols, W. R. Bagnall
- Series: The Works of Arminius
- Publisher: Derby, Miller and Orton
- Print Publication Date: 1853
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Pages: 668
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology
- Resource ID: LLS:WORKSARM01
- Resource Type: text.monograph.collected-work
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:43:38Z
Jacob Arminius was born in Oudewater, Holland in 1560. Arminius studied theology at the University of Leiden for five years, and then spent a year studying under Theodore Beza. Arminius was ordained at the age of 28 when he felt a distinct calling towards pastoral ministry. He became a popular preacher in Amsterdam where he also met and married his wife. Thirteen years later, he returned to teach at the University of Leiden, and there his classes and writings began to strongly challenge Calvinism. He died October 19, 1609, but his influence started an entire movement, Arminianism, and influenced many important theologians, including John Wesley.