Occupy your mind with Christ and His Gospel in order that you may know your sin and His grace, and then wrestle with your sin, as Romans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 have taught you to do. After you have arrived at the eighth chapter and are subjected to crosses and sufferings, you will be rightly taught how comforting predestination is, as explained in Romans 9, 10, and 11. For outside of a condition of suffering, cross-bearing, and mortal anguish, a person cannot contemplate predestination without injury to himself and without harboring a secret grudge against God. Therefore Adam must be quite dead before a person can bear to listen to this teaching and drink of this strong wine. Beware, then, of drinking wine while you are still a suckling infant. There is a proper limit, time, and age for every doctrine.
–Martin Luther–

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Martin Luther, Commentary on Romans (Kregel, 1982).

Jack W. Cottrell, “The Classical Arminian View,” in Perspectives on Election (B&H, 2006).

Randolph S. Foster, Objections to Calvinism As It Is (Schmul, 1998), chs. 2-3.

John Wesley, Calvinism Calmly Considered, 2 vols (Schmul, 2002).

—. “Free Grace: Against the Favoritistic False Doctrines of Calvinism.”

Adam Clarke, Clarke’s Commentary, 6 vols (Schmul, n.d.).