It is not uncommon, among persons of a
certain class, to represent the leading principles of Calvin as
unfavourable to practical religion, and to that kind of preaching
which is adapted to affect the hearts and consciences of the
hearers. A reference to the most able and intelligent theologians
and preachers who have held those principles, and upon whom they
may reasonably be concluded to have exerted their genuine and
fullest influence, will amply evince the inaccuracy of this
representation. Of the excellent divine quoted above, King Charles
I. was wont to say, that “he carried his
ears to hear other preachers, but his conscience to hear Mr.
Saunderson.”