John Smyth commented on Calvinism:

By true, spiritual intuition the English poet, John Milton wrote his Paradise lost and his Paradise Regained . He spoke

Before the transgression of Adam all three substances in the human being‑flesh, soul, and spirit‑were good, Gen. 1:31. For God considered all the things which he /385/ had made and they were very good‑indeed, especially the human being made in the image of God, Gen. 1:31. The three substances were also wholly free to choose good or evil, life or death, heaven or hell. Thus they were originally made good and free also in the recognition, in the capability, and performance of g

D. For it has been taught on Tannaite authority: