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people, and many a presiding elder rejoiced when Dow came
to hold camp meetings in his district. His chief delight was
in heaping ridicule upon the Calvinistic doctrine of election
LNUiAVING IN PEHAMBULATIONS OF COSMOPOLITE.
PEGGY DOW.
Wife of Lorenzo I >OW, and often the Companion Ol liis travels
and reprobation, which had been the torment of his boyhood.
His whimsical name for its advocates was "the *A-double-L
part' people;" for, he said, the Bible says that all may be
Perambulations of Cosmopolite 611
saved, and their theory cannot be true unless "A-double-L "
spells " part."
Dow took pride in his notoriety, called himself " Cosmopo-
lite," published his journals and other pamphlets, and sold
them on his travels. He was a thorn in the side of bishops
and lovers of order, though the fruits of his labors, so far as they
were permanent, often fell to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
They feared that ' ' out of his nest fifty Dows might spring
up," and the itinerant plan might be ruined by these rovers.
But no such consequence followed. Dow had his strange
day, and passed from the stage, leaving not his like.
In one of Lorenzo Dow's Western excursions he met the
widow of "the wild man of the West" and endeavored to
obtain a copy of his journal. This was doubtless John Adam
Grenade, "wild man, poet, and preacher;" one of the pecul-
iar characters that came to the surface on the frontier in the
great upheaval on the Cumberland. Grenade was of North
Carolina birth and French blood. His early life was gay and
profligate, until the sorrowful death of his pious mother
steadied him somewhat and he became a schoolmaster.
Under deep conviction he burned his cards, stripped the ruf-
fles from his shirt, clipped the hair which had been his pride,
gave up his school, and emigrated to Tennessee. For two
years he strove in vain for an assurance of pardon, vexed by
awful visions, and going forth into the woods "howling,
praying, and roaring in such a manner that he was reputed
to be crazy." As such he gained wide notoriety. At one of
the first great union camp meetings, in 1799, " heaven, that I
thought was forever sealed against me, was suddenly opened.
. . . Streams of glory divine poured in upon me, and I went
all over the encampment until midnight praising Him who
had brought me such deliverance."
The Westminster Confession of Faith (1643) states:
Double predestination
Calvinistic predestination is sometimes referred to as "double predestination."[2] This is the view that God chose who would go to heaven, and who to hell, and that his decision will infallibly come to pass. The difference between elect and reprobate is not in themselves, all being equally unworthy, but in God's sovereign decision to show mercy to some, to save some and not others. However, an important note is made that human free will is still in effect, therefore the reprobate is still rightly responsible for any sins committed. It is called double predestination because it holds that God chose both whom to save and whom to damn, as opposed to single predestination which contends that though he chose whom to save, he did not choose whom to damn.
Maybe the above will help.
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Subject: [VA-HIST] "A-double-L-part people"
In the several antebellum editions of the journal of Lorenzo Dow, an
early-19th-century Methodist itinerant preacher active in Virginia, N.C.
and elsewhere, Dow frequently refers to "A-double-L-part people" as
adversaries who sometimes disrupted his preaching, etc.
Anyone know what "A-double-L-part people" refers to?
Jon Kukla
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