History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

Carlstadt and Luther on the other, at Leipsic.[6]
This question is, in fact, the dividing line between
the two theologies.
Of the five points stated above, the third,
fourth, and fifth may be viewed as one; they teach
the same doctrine -- namely, that man fallen still
possesses such an amount of spiritual strength as
that he may do no inconsiderable part of the work
of his salvation, and needs only cooperating grace;
and had the authors of the Remonstrance been at
Leipsic, they must have ranged themselves on the
side of Eck, and done battle for the; Roman
theology. It was this which gave the affair its grave
aspect in the eyes of the majority of the pastors of
the Church of Holland. They saw in the doctrine of
the "Five Points" the ground surrendered which
had been won at the beginning of the Reformation;
and they saw seed anew deposited from which had
sprung the great tree of Romanism.
This was not concealed on either side. The
Remonstrants-so called from the Remonstrance
given in by them to the States -- put forward their
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