the sacraments (“The Agonie”), the sovereignty of God (“Justice”), the providence of God (“Providence”), Trinity (Ungratefulnesse), Perserverence of the Saints ("H. Baptisme"), 

I.	Introduction: The Predestination Conflict
a.	Christian Doctrine of God
i.	What is God?
ii.	Who is God?
iii.	How does God govern?
b.	Calvinism
i.	The dominance in Protestantism
ii.	The foreordained plan of God
c.	Introduction of Arminianism
i.	Introduced after Calvinism.
ii.	The preeminence of human Free Will
d.	THESIS: Herbert discusses the pan-European dialogue in his work, but more often than not emphasizes Calvin’s reverence for the Sovereignty of God over the sanctity of human free will.

I.	Literature Introduction
a.	Introduce Herbert
i.	Brief Herbert Biography
ii.	Herbert’s time in the Church
b.	Herbert’s writings.
i.	Subjects and themes.
ii.	Herbert’s devotion.

I.	The 17th century
a.	Calvinism
i.	Historical context
1.	An inheritor to Augustine and Anselm.
ii.	Doctrine
1.	T.U.L.I.P.
b.	Arminianism
i.	Historical Context
1.	Heresy
ii.	Doctrine
anti TULIP
1.	
b.	Consequences
i.	The Q Incident
ii.	The Synod of Dordrecht
c.	Other Religious happenings
i.	1. The church was now split into at least 4 sections
1.	there were innumerable radical and heretical groups.
2.	there was a schism between the 4 churches
Political Considerations in the 17th century.

I.	Herbert’s work
a.	The Pulley (felix culpae)
b.	Justice (Sovereignty of God)
c.	H. Baptisme. (I & II) (Perseverance of the Saints)
d.	Ungratefulnesse (Trinity)
Summary