that the cause of
men's doing good or evil proceeds from the knowledge which God infuses
into them; and that God does not move the will physically, but only
morally, by virtue of its dependence on the judgment of the mind. This
peculiar doctrine of grace and free-will was adopted by Amyraut, Cappel,
Bochart, Daille and others of the more learned among the Reformed
ministers, who dissented from Calvin's. The Cameronites (not to be
confused with the Scottish sect called Cameronians) are moderate
Calvinists, and approach to the opinion of the Arminians. They are also
called Universalists, as holding the universal reference of Christ's
death, and sometimes Amyraldists. The rigid adherents to the synod of
Dort accused them of Pelagianism, and even of Manichaeism, and the
controversy between the parties was carried on with great zeal; yet the
whole question between them was only, whether the will of man is
determined by the immediate action of God upon it, or by the
intervention of a knowledge which God impresses on the mind.

CAMERON, RICHARD (1648?-1680), founder of a Scottish religious sect of
Cameronians, which formed the nucleus of the regiment of this name in
the British army, was born at Falkland in the county of Fife. He was
educated at the village school, and his success was so great that, while
still a youth, he was appointed schoolmaster. In this situation he
became acquainted with some of the more enthusiastic field-preachers.
Persuaded by them he resigned his post and entered the family of Sir
Walter Scott of Harden as chaplain and tutor. Refusing to acknowledge
the Indulgence, he joined the ranks of the non-conforming ministers, and
incited the inhabitants of the southern counties of Scotland to protest
openly against the new edict. So formidable was the agitation that the
government pronounced illegal all armed assemblages for religious
purposes. Cameron took refuge in Holland, where he resided for some
time; but in the autumn of 1679 (probably) he returned to Scotland, and
once more made himself formidable to the government. Shortly after the
defeat of the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge in that year, Cameron was
slain in a skirmish at the Aird's, or Airs, Moss, fighting bravely at
the head of the few troops which he had been able to collect. His prayer
before going into battle became a tradition--"Lord spare the green and
take the ripe." After the accession of William III. the survivors were
amnestied, a