"
He finished the conversation by requesting Mr. Collins to bring him no
more such visitors.
[Sidenote: XII. 1. History of Arminians.]
From the close of the 17th century, till the present time, Arminianism
has been continually on the increase. It is a just observation of Mr.
Gibbon, that "the disciples of Arminius must not be computed by their
separate congregations."
Doctor Maclaine says, it is certain, that the most eminent philosophers
have been found among the Arminians. "If both Arminians and Calvinists,"
says Mr. Evans, in the excellent work we have cited,
"claim a _King_ (_James_ I.), it is certain that the latter alone
can boast of a _Newton_, a _Locke_, a _Clarke_, or a _Boyle_.
Archbishop _Usher_ is said to have lived a _Calvinist_; and died an
_Arminian_. The members of the episcopal church in Scotland; the
Moravians, the general Baptists, the Wesleyan Methodists, the
Quakers or Friends, are Arminians; and it is supposed that a great
proportion of the Kirk of Scotland teach the doctrines of Arminius,
though they have a Calvinistic confession of faith.
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