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Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last Century; A Contribution to the History of Theology

Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last Century; A Contribution to the History of Theology

Hunt, John

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ISBN10: 1150477482
ISBN13: 9781150477485
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.85 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...it maintained that necessity from the insufficiency of natural religion. The representative leader among the Presbyterian ministers Edmund in the beginning of the last century was Edmund Calamy, grandson of the famous Calamy. He was a moderate Nonconformist, without much of the zeal of the old Puritans, with no particular prejudices against the Established Church, yet preferring a more free and simple worship. According to a custom prevalent at that time among Nonconformist students, he prosecuted his studies at the University of Utrecht. He afterwards spent a year at Oxford, frequenting the Bodleian, hearing, when he could, the lectures of the professors, and carefully reconsidering the grounds of Dissent. With Calamy, and indeed with all the English Presbyterians iS this date, the ruling passion was freedom both in religion ant! government. They wished to be bound by no creeds and 'o declarations of faith, except such as could be directly grounded on the very words of Scripture. Calamy was not a member of the conference at Salters' Hall, but his sympathies were altogether with the non-subscribers. He was once CHAP. XIV. present at a sitting of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, where he had an opportunity of seeing the ecclesiastical government of the Scotch Presbyterians, which he describes as an ' inquisition.' Whatever might be the final or legitimate result of the freedom which Calamy advocated, it is certain that his own theology was without a stain of heresy. He was formal and stately, a sort of Presbyterian bishop; but he followed Calvin closely, starting with the Bible as an infallible book. This view of the Scriptures as a book different altogether in kind from all other books, was the ground of his rejection of what he...

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