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1601 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 124.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Calvin concludes his bristling treatise by stating, “They [the Anabaptists] brandish some other darts, but they are pointless. They give no stroke.” And he closes …

1602 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 124.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… are Calvin’s main contentions, which quickly became the norm for nearly all Immortal-Soulist contentions in the future, the weapons of continuing attack …

1603 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 125.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… with Calvin and Bullinger. But the difficulties appeared insuperable, and the contemporary sessions of the papal Council of Trent (1545-1563) spurred the …

1606 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 128.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… in Calvin’s terms. Renato’s teachings thus undermined the entire ecclesiastical merit system. After trial he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Bologna …

1607 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 129.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… against Calvin in a Latin poem. In 1547 he was summoned to appear before the Synod of Chur, in Rhaetia. He ignored the summons, but was condemned in absentia and …

1608 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 149 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… 112 (Calvin and his Psychopannychia—foremost Protestant foe of “soul sleep”) 8 115 Servetus, Michael 16th cent. Spain Socinian Phys.—theol. Soul is mortal 9 125 …

1609 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

… of Calvin to the “sleep of the soul,” and the contrasting moderation of the Anglican Church, with its optional position as regards the nature of the soul and …

1610 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 177.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Luther, Calvin,” et cetera, had in many instances offered weak and ineffective arguments against the positions of the Papacy, which “laid them under needless …

1611 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 207.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… , Tyndale, Calvin and his Psychopannychia, then the Anabaptist, Helvetic, Edwardian, and Scottish confessions—and on through Stegmann, Overton, Bull, Jurieu …

1612 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 236.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… extreme Calvinism. Between 1758 and 1760 he produced a four-volume set of sermons, A Series of Discourses on the Principles and Evidences of Natural Religion …

1613 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 254.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… from Calvinism, and ministering to a congregation of General Baptists at Wisbeach, published a series of books—An Essay on Future Punishments (1808); An Essay …

1614 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 273 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Picture 1: Jonathan Edwards, Charles Chauncy Left: Jonathan Edwards (d. 1758) Champion of Eternal Torment. Right: Charles Chauncy (d. 1787) Promoted Universalism in Opposition to Calvinism’s Doctrine of Election. Page 273

1615 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 273.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… . His Calvinism was postulated on a God of wrath, says Parrington. He profoundly believed that those who are saved are saved only by the arbitrary will of a wrathful …

1616 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 273.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… of Calvinism on the part of not a few. A crisis, yes, a revolt, was in the making.

1617 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 278.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… predestinarian Calvinism predominant. Now a barrage of books for and against the upsurging Universalism poured forth for more than half a century. The …

1618 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 282.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… (1841); Calvin French, of Boston (1842); Jacob Blain, of Buffalo, New York (1844); and John H. Pearce, of North Carolina (1844).

1619 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 284.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Congregationalist Calvin French published a 54-page pamphlet at Boston contending for immortality only in Christ, the sleep of the dead, and the final annihilation …

1620 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 289 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

2. TURNED AWAY FROM CALVIN’S PREDESTINARIANISM