he university for twelve months, he removed to
Bordeaux, where he was soon appointed a regent in the college of
Bergerac. He did not remain long at Bordeaux, but accepted the offer of
a chair of philosophy at Sedan, where he passed two years. He then
returned to Bordeaux, and in the beginning of 1604 he was nominated one
of the students of divinity who were maintained at the expense of the
church, and who for the period of four years were at liberty to
prosecute their studies in any Protestant seminary. During this period
he acted as tutor to the two sons of Calignon, chancellor of Navarre.
They spent one year at Paris, and two at Geneva, whence they removed to
Heidelberg. In this university, on the 4th of April 1608, he gave a
public proof of his ability by maintaining a series of theses, _De
triplici Dei cum Homine Foedere_, which were printed among his works.
The same year he was recalled to Bordeaux, where he was appointed the
colleague of Dr Primrose; and when Francis Gomarus was removed to
Leiden, Cameron, in 1618, was appointed professor of divinity at Saumur,
the principal seminary of the French Protestants.

In 1620 the progress of the civil troubles in France obliged Cameron to
seek refuge for himself and family in England. For a short time he read
private lectures on divinity in London; and in 1622 the king appointed
him principal of the university of Glasgow in the room of Robert Boyd,
who had been removed from his office in consequence of his adherence to
Presbyterianism. Cameron was prepared to accept Episcopacy, and was
cordially disliked for his adherence to the doctrine of passive
obedience. He resigned his office in less than a year.

He returned to France, and lived at Saumur. After an interval of a year
he was appointed professor of divinity at Montauban. The country was
still torn by civil and religious dissensions; and Cameron excited the
indignation of the more strenuous adherents of his own party. He
withdrew to the neighbouring town of Moissac; but he soon returned to
Montauban, and a few days afterwards he died at the age of about
forty-six. Cameron left by his first wife several children, whose
maintenance was undertaken by the Protestant churches in France. All his
works were published after his death.

His name has a distinct place in the development of Calvinistic theology
in Europe. He and his followers maintained that the will of man is
determined by the practical judgment of the mind;