Calvinists
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in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Followers of Calvinism depicted as subject to capital punishment for preaching in Catholic provinces.
Is it to avenge God that this Calvinist and this Jesuit are put to death?
A Calvanist teacher, who, in certain provinces, preaches to his flock, if he be detected, is punished with death;
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Religious party holding Calvin's doctrine of predestination as fundamental, aligned politically with Parliament against the Laudian faction.
The Calvinists held it to be one of the fundamental tenets of Christianity and condemned those who opposed it as Arminian heretics.
[xxiii] from which they expected protection, and declared themselves in its favour even in such purely constitutional questions as those relating to arbitrary taxation, whilst the Calvinistic clergy and laity, feeling themselves to be in a majority, exalted the authority of Parliament by which that majority was represented.