to the natural man the ability to understand the truth of Christianity and have thus denied the doctrine of total depravity. We cannot and need not discuss this debate in detail. Kuyper’s basic contention that we must always keep in mind the distinction between the regenerate and the unregenerate mind need not imply that apologetics must come after systematics and must be negative only. Apologetics can very well come first and presuppose in general the system of truth brought out in systematics.