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FOUR PRINCIPAL RELIGIONS,

WHICH HAVE OBTAINED IN THE WORLD ;
PAGANISM, MOHAMMEDISM, JUDAISM, AND

CHRISTIANITY;
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AND OTHER DENOMI.

NATIONS OF PROTESTANTS :

Evangelical Religion.
BY THE LATE REV. DAVID WILLIAMSON,
MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, WHITEHAVBN.

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A state of innocence we can only conceive, if indeed, in our present misery, it
be possible to conceive it; but the sentiments and worship proper to a fallen and
offending being, we have all to learn, as we have all to practise Dr. Johnson's
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LONDON:
JOHN RICHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHANGÉ.

WHITEHAVEN:

Printed by R. Gibson, King Street.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

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On Calvinism and Calvinists

Of Arminianism and Arminians

On Evangelical Religion

On Antinomianism and Antinomians

On Church Government

On the United Churches of England and Ireland

made in it

Objections to the Liturgy

Rites and Usages of the United Church of England and Ireland

Doctrines of the United Church

Parties in the Church

The Characters and Qualifications of the Evangelical Clergy

The Charges generally brought against Evangelical Clergymen

On the Manner of Preaching

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FIBRA

UNİTCIY
CALIFORNIA

ON CALVINISM AND CALVINISTS.

We have hitherto trodden on ground, common to the orthodox professors of Christianity ; we now enter the disputed and debatable regions, where men celebrated for · their piety, for their learning, and for their penetration, find themselves engaged in opposite systems, which too often have drawn them into acrimonious disputes, and into a state of mutual repulsion. It shall be our business, without entering into the controversy ourselves, to state the claims of both parties, and the objections with which they mutually assail each other. On no subject, perhaps, is accuracy more a desideratum, than on that before us. Such have been the mis-statements, on both sides of the ques. tion, that too many partisans of each, seem resolved not to know what the tenets are, that have been embraced by their opponents. The name of Calvin has, by one part of the Christian Church, been raised to a distinction and eminence, almost equal with those of the Apostles, and his decisions esteemed almost oracular. By another part, it has been associated with every thing that is oppro