“The Calvinistic doctrines are said to be decidedly unfavorable to good works; and yet no denomination of Christians on earth have manifested a greater zeal for good works, or have endured more self-denial in performing them, than Calvinists. They are said to make preaching useless, and to quiet the consciences of sinners; and yet no class of ministers in the world have preached with more zeal or with more powerful effects, than those holding and preaching these doctrines.” — Nathan Lewis Rice, God Sovereign and Man Free: Or, The Doctrine of Divine Foreordination and Man’s Free Agency, Stated, Illustrated and Proved From the Scriptures (1850), pp. 19-20