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Shedd’s volume on Calvinism defines and defends the tenets of Calvinism against the rising influence of modernism and the increased fragmentation in American churches. In particular, Shedd addresses theological controversy in the Presbyterian Church, prompted by a proposed revision from the Westminster Standards. In this volume, he appeals to the history of Calvinism to prevent latitudinarian...

but willing; nor would a Good Being permit evil to be done except that in his omnipotence he can turn evil into good.” Calvin, adopting Augustine’s phraseology, concisely marks the difference between the two permissions in the remark, that “God’s permission of sin is not involuntary, but voluntary.” Inst. I. xviii. 3. Both Augustine and Calvin had particular reference, in this connection, to the first origin of sin in angels and men.1 But their statement holds true of the continuance of sin in angels
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