apart from our own personal transgressions). All of this led to a series of controversies and much ink was spilled in the process. Eventually, as Arminianism weakened the evangelical and Reformed doctrines of sin and grace, it was blended with Arianism, an ancient heresy denying Christ’s eternal deity. Attacking the doctrine of the Trinity, Jonathan Mayhew wrote, “Christians ought not, surely, to pay any such obedience or homage to the Son as has a tendency to eclipse the Glory of God the Father