The Methodist movement produced a little revival of the Calvinist and arminian controversy.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Our visitor fell at once into the trap, and made things plain to the meanest capacity, until Jamie elicited from the guileless Southron that he had never heard of the Act of Union; that Adam Smith was a new book he hoped to buy; that he did not know the difference between an arminian and a Calvinist, and that he supposed the Confession of Faith was invented in Edinburgh.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
They began the very next day in the library at Tredinnis-a deserted room carpeted with badgers' skins, and lined with undusted books-works on farriery, veterinary surgery, and sporting subjects, long rows of the Annual Register, the arminian Magazine.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch