The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-07-06

~W We rsrublish the following
fuF de purpose Of e0rrccting sOme very
poItsnt erron. which Appeared IN is iSF
nubIioation.
wHnsn Cor the DsmoeFste Sentinel
Sundry Matters
Mr. EDrEoA:-I read an article in The
9Th No. OF the Sentinel from our old friend
3D." hended Calvin and Ssrvetus. -
but II the heading bad have had the small
pox, the rest ol the article would not have
eaaght IL What had Wesley, Methodist
Episc0paey. the DOcirinal Tracts and Pres.
byterisnism 10 do with Calvin's causing the
drath Of ssrvetus, heard minister once
say, when be got in the byush preaching it
caused him to humble himself and feel his
dependence. then God always blessed him
and he WAS enabled TO shoutout But when
friend cd" gets his way hedged up, he
not enly looses his subject but he gets mad
and svenIs his spleen on som. .thing Or some
body wholly foreign to the subject.
That Calvin did I'd the officers of the
Roman Catholic inqusition at Vienna the
pFiyGe letter Of Seryetus, | abundantly
psoSed. Gaillaume says the object of those
letters was to convict him Of heresy. 1t is
not very likely they were sent for his bene'
IT. when he had threatened his death years
before, and caused his execution short pme
alter. There is but one side to this conduct
But you say "there is no confidence tc
be placed in any of the authorities that
have prodpoed!" Then there il no truth
In history. Neither is theirany in Calvin,
for the principle testimony l adduced against
him, was from his own pen. Youmay find
The same language that quoted from Mr.
Wesley, in reference to Calvin's rot saying
one word about Servetus' execution quoted
by Dyer (P. 1887 from Calvin's own pen
(ReE Seryeti p. Ali. And yet you mus
eau Mr.. Wesley liar and unworthy of cred
it. ! don't write this in defence of MIR
Wesley, he needs no defence from me, wher
sueh man as James Graham L. J.. d
whose religious views conceded with thos,
professed by the early Puritaps and tn,
Scottish coyenanters" styles Mr.. Wesley a
one Of the greatest and best Of mankind -
And when such men as the celebrated Rob
srt Hall exclaimed IL would not incur th,
guilt of that viruIent abuse which Toplad,
east upon him Wesley for poiI is merel,
speculative and of very little Importance fo
ten thousand worlds" Calder's life of Epis
copius p. All. That the readers of ih
Sentipel may fully understand whether MIR
Wesley did or did not misrepresent Mr.. Top
lady, ] will quote it at large flom the Doc
trinal Tracts:
TRACT vi.
|. Mr.. ToPLADy II young, bold man. late
ly published a pamphlet, an extract iron
which was soon alter printed, concludip!
with the Words
"The sum OF oil is this; One in twenty
suppose, OF mankind are elec ed; nineteel
in twenty are reprohsted. The elect shal
be saved, do what they will; the reprobat
shall be damned, do what they cam
9. A great outcry has been raised on tha
account. as though this was not fair stat
Of the case; and it has been yehementlv af
6rmed, that no such consequence follows
from the doctrine c. absolute preJestnation
calmly affirm it is fair state OF the case
this consequence does naturally and neces
sarily follow from the doctrine Of absolut,
predestinallon, as here stated and defended
by bold Mr.. Augustus Toplady.
Indeed have not leisure to consider tht
mstser at large; | can only make few
structures, and leave the young man to be
farther corrected by one that is FULL his
match, Mr.. Thomas divers.
5. "When love is predicated of God, i
implies, ~ His everlasting will, purpose
and dcterminaiionsto save his people" Mr.
1oploty'a Tract, chap, l.) / appeal to al
men, whethcritis not natural consequence
even of this, that ''all these shall be saved
do what thay will"
You may say, 20, but they will only d.
what is good" cit so; yet the consequence
stands.
ELECTION signifies that sovereign. uncon
ditional. immutable act of God, whereby hs
selected some to be eternally saved" In
aasadls anc ndtionaY From hence then i
undeniablyl follows, t'these shall be saved
do what they will"
Predestlnation, as relating to the elect, il
that irreversible act ol the Divine will, where
By God determined to deliver certain mum.
Der Of men from hell" Ergo. therefore,
certain number shall infalbly be saved,
do what they will. Who oan deuy the con.
sequence?
'tNot one of the elect can perish, but they
must all necessarily be saved" (Chap. ).
Can any assert this, and yet deny that con.
sequence, therefore all the elect shall be
saved, do what they will? unless you would
say, 1t is the proposition ITSELF rather thar
. consequence from it.
q. So much for the former part of the
question. Let US now consider the latter
"Hatred ascribed to God implies ,eso.
luton not to have mercy on such and sucl
mea. So "Esau have ! hated" that is, +.
did from all eternity determine not to hav,
mercy. on him." (Chap. ~ in othei
Words
Iby my dire decree did seal
His liked; unaterable doom,
Consigned his unborn soul to hell;
And damnd him from his mothers womb
Well. then, does it not follow, by una.
veidable consequence, that such and sucl
men. poor hated Esau in particular, "shal
b. damned, do what they can?"
tReprobation denotes Gods eternal pre
tsrision Of some men, and his predestinatio1
OF them to destruction" And is it possibl,
fur them, by any thing they can do, to pre-
vent that dstruction? You say. "No,'' l
follows, they "shall be damned, do wha
they can"
'.PTedestination, as it regards the repro
kaAA IL that iynrauta hi. ocf ,,f Ga1aa =, ;tt