Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal.

One erroneous assumption of this writer is, that "there is no free agency to do wrong, which is not adequate to do right." This writer seems to think this a self-evident proposi...

2. It has been objected, that "since man never is what he ought to be until he is renewed and made holy, therefore any act short of that which either constitutes or implies rege...

2. It may be said, and has sometimes been said, that this view of the subject involves a contradiction; that it is the same as to say, the man wills against his preference, or i...

If there are embarrassments in the other case, and what theory of mind or matter has not its _inexplicables?_--these embarrassments are evidently of another kind; it is not the...

Another argument against the Calvinistic doctrine of motives is, that it leads to materialism. The doctrine, it will be recollected, is this: When the mind is brought into conne...

1. This doctrine of predestination makes God the author of sin. Some acknowledge this, and expressly assert, that God is the "_efficient_ cause" of sin. Others affirm it in fact...

3. A third and intermediate theory on the subject of depravity and human responsibility is the one presented and advocated in the preceding number. This system is presented, in...

2. Another reason for believing that this doctrine is what we have defined it to be, and involves in it the principles we have charged upon it, is drawn from the terms in which...

_First Theory_.--The notion that the mind is entirely passive in this change, that is, that nothing is done by the subject of it, which is preparative or conditional, or in any...

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3. On the ground of this doctrine, also, there would be some difficulty in accounting for the necessity of giving grace, in all cases, even to the elect. Why may not some of the...

This sermon had been before the public almost two years before it received any notice, so far as the author is informed, from any of the advocates of predestination. After the t...

"The first view is that which we understood to be advocated by Dr. Fisk, in the sermon we reviewed." The writer goes on farther to say that his objection to this is, "that it is...

Indeed the very terms, _regeneration, born, birth_, &c, imply of themselves another and an efficient agent; and then to connect these with the Divine agency, as the Scriptures h...

Since writing the above, I have seen an inquiry of a correspondent in one of the Calvinistic papers, in these words, "Why do our Calvinistic writers retain the words which seem...

One modification of Calvinism remains to be mentioned. It is known by the name of the "New Divinity." The theological doctors connected with Yale college are the reputed authors...

One thought more, with respect to this moral power, and I will pass on. The doctrine of Calvinism is, if I understand it, that God controls the natural power of men, by means of...

1. The first class of passages that we will now examine, which are supposed to favour the idea of unconditional election, is those that speak of a predestination _unto_ holiness...

3. The doctrine we oppose makes God partial and a respecter of persons; contrary to express and repeated declarations of Scripture. For it represents God as determining to save...

But we are informed farther in this paragraph, that one great difficulty in complying with my condition is, that "Calvinists, as a class, are remarkable for thinking for themsel...

It is certain that the moral standing of those angels and men whose states are now unalterably fixed, differs materially from their probationary state; and this difference rende...

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