It is as hard to contend in argument against "the oligarchy of heaven," as Motley calls the Calvinistic party, as it was formerly to strive with them in arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Everywhere else, certainly, there is the note which I have called Calvinistic; especially in the predestined passion of Tattycoram or the incurable cruelty of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference

"Calvinistic" chain of events, but this is just an illusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Ideas - Comments] Reference

Calvinist of the present day to produce an author prior to Augustine who maintained what are now called Calvinistic opinions "(Preface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

If you mean "Calvinistic," no woman could ever be such, for Calvinism is logic, and no woman worth the name could ever live by syllogisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference

Calvinistic argument, as far as the verse is concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

Minahasa, Christianised after the Calvinistic methods of Dutch and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

Calvinistic theologian like D'Aubigné, nor a scoffing infidel like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

Calvinistic fatalism reduces all agency to that of the Deity alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Calvinism] Reference

Calvinistic principles was sufficient to prevent their hearty co-operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

She is thoroughly orthodox, Calvinistic, and Congregational, and being neither.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

On this critical and decisive point all the great Calvinistic writers break down.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Calvinism] Reference

The great difficulty, however, with our Calvinistic friends is regarding certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

It is very much in the spirit of the Calvinistic clergyman, James Hervey, who, when curate at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

"That, if anything," said Fergus, "will make this Calvinistic colonel blush for his injustice.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

Calvinistic persuasion -- Danaeus, whose work, however, is confined to an exposition of the Decalogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

Why they did this no scholar can tell, unless it was to favor their Calvinistic ideas upon conversion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880] Reference

Scriptural terms 'elect' and 'predestinate' the peculiar sense which is now usually styled Calvinistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

Helwys and his followers were Arminians, repudiating with heat the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

He was by nature as kindly a man as ever lived; but he had been bred in the old rigid Calvinistic creed of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

In marked contrast to such an idea just ponder for a moment some of the doctrines of the Calvinistic theology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

Those stern New Englanders, Delbanco observes, were seized by a profound Calvinistic sense of personal iniquity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do We Need Satan?] Reference

To understand his eloquent and indignant declamations, we must read the transatlantic expounders of the Calvinistic theology.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Calvinism] Reference

Athenasius, Cyril, Hilary, Basil, Ambrose, Jerome, &c. The testimony of the Fathers is clearly against the Calvinistic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

In the story of Baldur we find that the goddess Hel ultimately gave her name to the place of punishment precious to the Calvinistic mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Calvinistic school; but my heart had revolted against the creed, and from the time when I was five-and-twenty my mind had rejected it with equal decision and disdain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference