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Thus having spoken with the air of a man who had left nothing further to be said on predestination or justification, the King rose, took off his hat, and drank a bumper to the health of the States-General and his Excellency Prince Maurice, and success to the affair of Cleve. After dinner there was a parting interview in the gallery.
In that case Predestination would hardly have known which way to turn, to get at some sort of compromise or accommodation that would square matters. If Gwen's understudy had been called on, there would have been to borrow a favourite expression of Uncle Mo's a pretty how-do-you-do, on the part of Predestination.
Compare the conduct of our Parliament with that of the Genevese tyrant. Again: Bolsee was brought to trial for "having other ideas than those of Calvin on predestination." Consider these things, and ask yourselves if Fourquier-Tinville did worse. The savage religious intolerance of Calvin was, morally speaking, more implacable than the savage political intolerance of Robespierre.
That's Ned Masters, an' was once the Reverend Edward Masters, Bachelor o' Divinity in Cambridge College; but in a tavern there fell a-talking with a certain Pelagian about Adam an' Eve, an' because the fellow turn'd stubborn, put a knife into his waistband, an' had to run away to sea: a middling drinker only, but after a quart or so to hear him tackle Predestination!
A fresh edict renewed and sharpened the punishment for reading the scriptures in private or public. At the same time, the violent personal altercation between Luther and Erasmus, upon predestination, together with the bitter dispute between Luther and Zwingli concerning the real presence, did more to impede the progress of the Reformation than ban or edict, sword or fire.
In this corner, a son of the divine Esculapius, writing a book against predestination; perhaps worse feeling his patient's pulse, instead of his apothecary's a brother of the Faculty in the back-ground upon his knees in tears drawing the curtains of a mangled victim to beg his forgiveness; offering a fee instead of taking one.
Lynde says, everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination. Yes indeed, it's very romantic." "I can't see that it's so terribly romantic at all," said Marilla rather crisply.
Theologians have felt its irrationality acutely, and the 'fall, the predestination, and the election which the situation involves have given them more trouble than anything else in their attempt to pantheize Christianity. The whole business remains a puzzle, both intellectually and morally.
Then I might refresh them with high and incomprehensible Doctrines, beyond the reach of Reason Predestination, Election, the Co-existences and Co-eternities of the incomprehensible Triad. And with what a holy vehemence would I exclaim and cry out against all forms of doctrinal Error all the execrable hypotheses of the great Heresiarchs!
To this decision was subscribed the letter B. On hearing it, a certain spirit observed with a smile, "How fair an apology is predestination for weakness or impotence!"
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