Excerpt from Methodist Quarterly Review, Vol. 61 Violations of, and discordance with, their principle. Roman. Iste often become by position asserters of ultra-democracy, and Protestants of absolute despotism. And so Calvinism has, his. Torically, been by position the advocate for revolution and Ar minianism the asserter of authority. In fact, as Arminianism has been, as above shown, the ruling doctrine of the Church, and Calvinism an insurgent specialty, so the historical position of the first has been, favorable to the assertion of authority, and the normal position of the latter has been revolt. This may be called one of the accidents of history. So the learned Sel den in his table-talk remarked on the curious contradic tion in the English civil war, that the advocates of absolutism in religion were the advocates of political liberty, and vice tiered. Yet it may, perhaps, be truly said that when the relig ious absolutist gains the power he is apt to be an absolute though a conscientious despot. He makes a better rebel than ruler. Prof. Fisher, a Calvinist, gives a severely true picture of the consolentieus despotism of Calvin at Geneva. A similar despot1sm, on a larger scale, in England under Cromwell, ren dered the nat1on willing by reaction to rush into the depravi ties of the Restoration. Driven to America, even while under the rule of an Arminian monarchy, a similar despotism, on a small scale, overspread New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.