The complete works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting) . ostthe entire population, and as in such disputes Scotchmen takean extraordinary interest, the county was set very prettily bythe ears. The Auld Light divines were strict Calvinists, layinggreat stress on the doctrine of Justification by Faith, andinclined generally to exercise spiritual authority after a some-what despotic fashion. The New Light divines were less dog-matic, less inclined to religious gloom and acerbity, and theypossessed, on the whole, more literature and knowledge of theworld. Burns became deeply interested in the theo
The complete works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting) . ostthe entire population, and as in such disputes Scotchmen takean extraordinary interest, the county was set very prettily bythe ears. The Auld Light divines were strict Calvinists, layinggreat stress on the doctrine of Justification by Faith, andinclined generally to exercise spiritual authority after a some-what despotic fashion. The New Light divines were less dog-matic, less inclined to religious gloom and acerbity, and theypossessed, on the whole, more literature and knowledge of theworld. Burns became deeply interested in the theological war-fare, and at once ranged himself on the liberal side. Fromhis being a poet this was to have been expected, but various 222 THE LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. circumstances concurred in making his partisanship more thanusually decided. The elder Burnes was, in his ways of think-ing, a New Light, and his religious notions he impressedcarefully on his children—his son consequently, in taking upthe ground he did, was acting in accordance with received.
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