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title: 'N.L. Rice on Calvinism and Good Works'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-08-10
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-n-l-rice-on-calvinism-and-good-works
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# N.L. Rice on Calvinism and Good Works

“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**](/authors/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