1788 JOHN WESLEY & AUGUSTUS TOPLADY. Debate Regarding Calvinism and the Divine Decrees. Reformation Liberty [Female Allegorical Engraving]

Liberty [Female Allegorical Engraving]

John Wheatley

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1788 JOHN WESLEY & AUGUSTUS TOPLADY. Debate Regarding Calvinism and the Divine Decrees. Reformation Liberty [Female Allegorical Engraving]Very rare early imprint of John Fletcher's contribution, at the behest of John Wesley, into the ongoing debate between Augustus Toplady and John Wesley on the issue of Calvinism. The debate centered specifically the decrees to salvation and damnation by sovereign election. Toplady was of course the famous Calvinist divine and author of the anti Wesley satirical hymn, "Rock of Ages," and Wesley was his public theological nemesis. Fletcher, John. An