Giving the Arminian Babel a Shake: The Wesley-Toplady Controversy (3)

Second, Toplady believed that there was good precedence [for preaching the doctrine of predestination]. That precedence was Jesus Christ himself, that “great preacher of predestination.” Christ, Toplady claimed, “considered election as a heart-reviving doctrine or He never would have commanded his disciples to rejoice because their names were written in heaven.” . . . [Luke 10:20 KJV] And finally, preaching predestination as a necessary aspect of the gospel demolished both Phariseeism and Antinomianism. Toplady believed that these two errors were as old as Adam because they belonged to the depraved nature everyone inherited from this first father. And only when believers understood that good works—and faith—were the fruit of election and not a condition, would they both perform them and not rely upon them for righteousness. Rev. Bill Langerak

Giving the Arminian Babel a Shake: The Wesley-Toplady Controversy (3)

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