See also:JOHN See also:CAMERON (1579–1623)
, Scottish theologian, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow about 1579, and received his See also:early See also:education in his native See also:city
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After having taught See also:Greek in the university for twelve months, he removed to See also:Bordeaux, where he was soon appointed a See also:regent in the See also:college of See also:Bergerac
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He did not remain See also:long at Bordeaux, but accepted the offer of a See also:chair of See also:philosophy at See also:Sedan, where he passed two years
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He then returned to Bordeaux, and in the beginning of 1604 he was nominated one of the students of divinity who were maintained at the expense of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and who for the See also:period of four years were at See also:liberty to prosecute their studies in any See also:Protestant See also:seminary
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During this period he acted as See also:tutor to the two sons of Calignon, See also:chancellor of See also:Navarre
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They spent one See also:year at See also:Paris, and two at See also:Geneva, whence they removed to See also:Heidelberg
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In this university, on the 4th of See also:April 16o8, he gave a public See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of his ability by maintaining a See also:series of theses, De triplici Dei cum Homine Foedere, which were printed among his See also:works
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The same year he was recalled to Bordeaux, where he was appointed the colleague of Dr See also:Primrose; and when See also:Francis See also:Gomarus was removed to See also:Leiden, See also:Cameron, in 1618, was appointed See also:professor of divinity at See also:Saumur, the See also:principal seminary of the See also:French Protestants
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In 162o the progress of the See also:civil troubles in See also:France obliged Cameron to seek See also:refuge for himself and See also:family in See also:England
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For a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he read private lectures on divinity in See also:London; and in 1622 the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king appointed him principal of the university of Glasgow in the See also:room of See also:Robert See also:Boyd, who had been removed from his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in consequence of his adherence to Presbyterian-ism
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Cameron was prepared to accept See also:Episcopacy, and wascordially disliked for his adherence to the See also:doctrine of passive obedience
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He resigned his office in less than a year
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He returned to France, and lived at Saumur
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After an See also:interval of a year he was appointed professor of divinity at See also:Montauban
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The See also:country was still torn by civil and religious dissensions; and Cameron excited the indignation of the more strenuous adherents of his own party
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He withdrew to the neighbouring See also:town of See also:Moissac; but he soon returned to Montauban, and a few days afterwards he died at the See also:age of about See also:forty-six
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Cameron See also:left by his first wife several See also:children, whose See also:maintenance was undertaken by the Protestant churches in France
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All his works were published after his See also:death
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His name has a distinct See also:place in the development of Calvinistic See also:theology in See also:Europe
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He and his followers maintained that the will of See also:man is determined by the See also:practical See also:judgment of the mind; that the cause of men's doing See also:good or evil proceeds from the knowledge which See also:God infuses into them; and that God does not move the will physically, but only morally, by virtue of its dependence on the judgment of the mind
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This See also:peculiar doctrine of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and See also:free-will was adopted by See also:Amyraut, See also:Cappel, See also:Bochart, Daille and others of the more learned among the Reformed ministers, who dissented from See also:Calvin's
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The Cameronites (not to be confused with the Scottish See also:sect called See also:Cameronians) are moderate Calvinists, and approach to the See also:opinion of the Arminians
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They are also called Universalists, as holding the universal reference of See also:Christ's death, and sometimes Amyrald= ists
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The rigid adherents to the See also:synod of See also:Dort accused them of Pelagianism, and even of See also:Manichaeism, and the controversy between the parties was carried on with See also:great zeal; yet the whole question between them was only, whether the will of man is determined by the immediate See also:action of God upon it, or by the intervention of a knowledge which God impresses on the mind
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