Author : David Meredith Reese
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458960597
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)
Book Synopsis Quakerism Versus Calvinism by : David Meredith Reese
Download or read book Quakerism Versus Calvinism written by David Meredith Reese and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that their virtues and excellencies, though admitted to be such, were either deteriorated by the imputation of bad motives, or pronounced but a specious substitute for the religion of the Bible. And what afflicted me still more was the fact, that what you call the Grand Error of the system, I had always esteemed, and do still regard, as but another name for one of the grand and distinguishing features of our holy religion, and an integral part of Bible Christianity. This led me to re-peruse the standard works of Quakerism, to see whether the doctrine of inward light, as held and taught by them, could be either mystical or heretical. And the result of my careful revision of those works, was the full confirmation of my former convictions, that by the declaration that God hath given to every man a measure of saving and sufficient supernatural light and grace, Friends mean nothing more or less than this: ?that by the atonement of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, every man is placed in a state of initial salvation, and they therefore believes according to the scriptures, that it is possible for every man to be saved, who fears God and works righteousness, according to the measure of light with which he is favored. And believing this to be a doctrine clearly revealed in the word of God, and cordially embraced by a large proportion of enlightened Protestants, I was surprised that it should be assailed by any Christian minister, and still more so, when I saw the perverted view you had taken of it, by which you have been led to proclaim your opposition in terms of opprobrium and bitter reproach. As I progressed in the perusal of your book, I saw most clearly that you take occasion to exhibit the distinctive features of Calvinism on almost every page, and contrasting t...