published in 1598 and again in 1599 due to its popularity. Perkins’s topic was predestination, which he hoped to present in a more preferable way than did Calvin. In reality, though, he ended up articulating the sort of supralapsarianism found in Beza and Calvin’s other prominent followers of the day. Central to Arminius’s examination is his view that biblical predestination has a christological framework. That is, predestination concerns humans as sinners, and is determined through Christ.8 Predestination
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