Calvinism a life-system - pagina 166

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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who

penitent

silent

subterranean

his

same thought

the

expression,

Horizontally,

cave.

immured

himself to be

causes

may

if I

embodiment

finds

separation between sacred and secular ground.

uncountenanced and uncared

thing is

upon

looked

exorcism

being

as

baptism

in

us,

the

in

Every-

by the church,

lower character, and

of a

tells

for

in

use this

that these lower things

are really meant to be unholy.

Now,

it is

evident that

such a standpoint did not invite Christians to make a

Nothing but a study appertain-

study of earthly things.

ing to the sphere of heavenly things and contemplation

could attract those

who under such

guard over the sanctuary of the

a banner

had mounted

ideal.

This conception of the moral condition of

fallen

man

has been opposed in principle by Calvinism, on the one

hand by taking our conception of absolute

sense,

which

good

is

grace.

Sin,

accord

with

man by

according the

Scriptures,

arrested sin in

its

effectuation

of

unbridled

and

led to a

may be inferred from But God

He

sin,

has interfered in the

by His common kill

eternal,

just

life

of

of mankind as a whole, and

in the life

life

handiwork, which naturally

divine

however does not unto

as

in full

days before the flood.

in the life of nature itself

save

life,

sin

common

is

course in order to prevent the complete

of his

would have followed.

it

of

which

would forthwith have

in the

grace,

dogma

itself,

degeneracy of human

the individual,

the

Calvinism,

to

Holy

what was seen annihilation

the most

in

and on the other by explaining that in fallen

unfettered, left to total

sin

as

the core of

but

it

grace.

sin,

This

nor does

arrests the complete

human

insight arrests the

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