The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . mes Trisme-gistus. As the theology of Arminius is thesource from which Fletcher and Wesleyreceived their theology, a short referenceto his personality and teaching will notbe out of place. The name is a Latinizedform of the familiar German Hermans, born in 1560 of Dutchparents, in the town of Oudewater, wasea
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . mes Trisme-gistus. As the theology of Arminius is thesource from which Fletcher and Wesleyreceived their theology, a short referenceto his personality and teaching will notbe out of place. The name is a Latinizedform of the familiar German Hermans, born in 1560 of Dutchparents, in the town of Oudewater, wasearly left an orphan. A distinguishedcourse at the University of Deyden wasfollowed by a tour of Europe, duringwhich he studied under Beza at Geneva,and under Zarabella in Italy. On hisreturn to his native country he became apastor in Amsterdam, where he was dis-tinguished not only for his eloquenceand profundity, but for his mild and win-ning Christian behavior. The extremeform of predestinarianism, which hadhitherto prevailed in Holland, was justthen suffering from severe attacks madeon it by a certain Richard Coornhert, aresident of Amsterdam. Arminius wasinvited by the community to refuteCoornhert, but the investigations he The Illustrated History oe Methodism 239. WKSLKYS WITH LORD GORDON undertook with this object in view ledhim to surrender his previous Calvin-istic tenets. Henceforth, notwithstand-ing the extreme candor and excellentspirit he displayed in every discussion inwhich he was involved, insult and oblo-quy were showered on him. lie was in-vited in 1(>()3 to occupy a theologicalchair in Ley den University, where hetaught until his death in l(i()i). He wasthus spared from participating in thebitter and bloody scenes that accompaniedand followed the Synod of Dort. Before his death Arminius had askedfor a synod at which the various pointsin dispute might be freely years elapsed before this body metin the historic town of Dort or
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