contrary to what some were ascribing to Augustine, concluded: “Predestination to evil is to be anathematized with detestation.”100 John Smyth’s group in Amsterdam also concluded: “so God doth not create or predestinate any man to destruction.”101 John Wesley, who saw preterition as being almost as objectionable as reprobation, declared that “unconditional election cannot appear without the cloven foot of reprobation” and “necessarily implies unconditional reprobation.” Hence he forcefully rejected