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... Calvinist wing of the Church in Ayrshire and championed a local gentleman , Gavin Hamilton , who had got into trouble with the Kirk Session for sabbath breaking and other evidences of contempt for the strict observances demanded by the ...
... Calvinist wing of the Church in Ayrshire and championed a local gentleman , Gavin Hamilton , who had got into trouble with the Kirk Session for sabbath breaking and other evidences of contempt for the strict observances demanded by the ...
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... Calvinist thunderings on the one hand and less orthodox ' moderate ' pleading for good works on the other . The concluding stanza , with its deliberate confusion of theological , biblical and amorous imagery , sums up the meaning of the ...
... Calvinist thunderings on the one hand and less orthodox ' moderate ' pleading for good works on the other . The concluding stanza , with its deliberate confusion of theological , biblical and amorous imagery , sums up the meaning of the ...
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... Calvinists ' . And he omitted Holy Willie's Prayer ' , the greatest of all his satiric poems and one of the great verse satires of all time . Burns is here concerned to attack the Calvinist view of predestination and of salvation by ...
... Calvinists ' . And he omitted Holy Willie's Prayer ' , the greatest of all his satiric poems and one of the great verse satires of all time . Burns is here concerned to attack the Calvinist view of predestination and of salvation by ...
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