26 September 2015 A.D. Calvinism and Self-Government
26 September 2015 A.D. Calvinism and Self-Government Archivist. “September 26: Calvinism and Self-Government.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 26 Sept 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/09/september-26-3/ . Accessed 26 Sept 2015. September 26: Calvinism and Self-Government CHAPTER III. CALVINISM AND SELF-GOVERNMENT. The Roman Catholic Church is Arminian; the Episcopal Church is Calvinistic in its creed and Arminian in its clergy; the Methodist Church is Arminian in its clergy and creed. The Episcopal Church has a formula, called the “Thirty-nine Articles,” which is Calvinistic, but the greater part of the Church has grown away from it, and Arminianism is preached from nearly all its pulpits. In churches organized on the monarchical or oligarchical principle the doctrines of Calvinism cannot live. In proportion as the rulers absorb power into themselves the Church becomes Arminian. The greater the authority of the clergy, the deeper the ...