The uncompromising biblicism of the more extreme Puritans left no place for the subtle jugglings of casuistry. Francis Bacon criticized the Calvinists for hollow exhortation in generalities in place of real moral direction. “The word,” he says, “[the bread of life] they toss up and down, they break it not. They draw not their distinctions down ad casus conscientiae; that a man may be warranted in his particular actions whether they be lawful or not.”
