Praise God for His justice and Mercy Precisian..that ANY be saved
But when push comes to shove, they default to the slippery slope of "common ground Naturalism" and "choose" to side with the pagans against the authentic Reformed Faith.
For example, after 1609AD in the Netherlands, the Precisian party was hamstrung by its lethal disputation with the Remonstrant party (the Arminians) and was unable to come to the rescue of its Reformed companions being murdered by the military offenses of the Jesuit inspired armies of the Empire.
And next, the same Remonstrant party migrated to England and seeded the "New Learning" of Francis Bacon and the "Independency" of Cromwell that slaughtered the Scottish, English, and Irish Presbyterians.
In America, we do not have a sufficient understanding of the deceit of Arminianism and how it operates to marginalize faithful "Calvinians".
We hobble ourselves by thinking that our greatest adversaries are the obvious adversaries of naturalism and paganism. But we are most vulnerable to those who have the pretense of being closest to us, the Arminians.
In my opinion, those who advocate Arminianism are our most trecherous foes inside the Body of Christ because they, like mean-spirited brothers in a family feud, are most intimate with us.
Arminians "play the same music" as we do, "wear the same clothes", and claim the same heritage, but then choose to be neutral when the more blood-thirsty Counter-Reformationists attack us.
Naturalist pagans love to promote the Arminian sectarians against us because the Arminians do their dirty work and heavy lifting while they wait to pick up the broken pieces of our dispirited Reformed community.
(Think of what happened, for example, in the 1930s when Reformed Protestantism was ravaged by the "modernist" offensive. Who were the spear carriers of the calculated onslaught against the "orthodox Presbyterians?" It was the American Arminianists pretending to be "moderate" and "reasonable"...the lukewarm that Christ Jesus, our Lord and King, instructs us to spit out).
We are wise as serpents to beware of Arminians as our trickiest disputants.
And I am grateful to Free Republic for the forum that makes these issues sharp. For the task, as it has been since 1609AD in the Netherlands, is to...
Be Precise!