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The doctrines of grace are often known as the five points of Calvinism, but they were not the invention of John Calvin or his reforming cohorts of the sixteenth century. Rather, they are biblical doctrines, as Dr. Steven J. Lawson demonstrated in his book Foundations of Grace (2006). Now, in Pillars of Grace, Dr. Lawson shows that the doctrines of grace have been understood and taught—sometimes...

more carefully defined and developed by his successor, Beza, and by the Synod of Dort and the Westminster Assembly. Calvin taught that more is required to bring a person to faith in Christ than the external offer of the gospel. God also must issue an internal call by which He draws His elect to Himself. With this in mind, Calvin writes, “The external call alone would be insufficient, did not God effectually draw to Himself those whom He has called.”124 He adds,
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