The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden Volume 1; To Which Are Added Brandt's Life of the ... Private Letters, a Copious and Authentic a - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1825 Excerpt: ... 2. The Third of these schemes of Predestination would escape this rock to much better effect, did not the patrons of in 1643 Prolocutor or President of the famous Assembly of Divines at Westminster, partof whose labour it was, to attempt, like the framers of the Lambeth Articles, (page 90,) to make the Articles of the Church of England assume a regular and decided Calvinistic aspect: This circumstance is very galling to all the modern assertors of the Calvinism of our Church, and is never mentioned without evident tokens of regret. For it is thus proved, that her reputed Calvinism was not sufficiently explicit and strong for those great men who framed the Lambeth Articles, and for those who constituted the WestminsterAssembly,--and to whom the high Predestinarian doctrines, in their foundations and bcariugs, were much better kuown than to any of the modern defenders of Calvinism. The improvements made by the latter Assembly upon the first Fifteen of our excellent Articles, may be safely recommended, as an interesting study, to all those rigid Predestinarian clergymen who glory in what they call the Calvinism of our Church. Dr. Twissc wrote a reply to our author's Examination of Perkins on Predestination, and entitled it A Vindication of the Grace, Power, and Providence of God, ifc.y'm which he arrives at the very same conclusion as Armiuius, respecting the equally objectionable nature of Sublapsarianism,--tbat, whatever subterfuges it may employ, it can repel to no better effect than Supralapsariauisin does, the charge of making God the author of sin. He is particularly severe against Peter Mulina;us, Du Moulin, who, iu that vile production, tlie Anatomy oj Arminianism, had endeavoured, like many theological pretenders iu these days, to invent a Predestinar...

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