Calvinism a life-system - pagina 168

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

164 all

our nature

Who

how

it

trained

evil

pleases

and

the

This

it;

And

fire.

way

if

you

out of res-

forth which attracts,

is it

put

motion by the

in

swiftly as an

arrow down

the boat arrives safely on tke opposite

pressed forward by the same power, which would

evil,

evil;

alone,

but by means of the chain, to which

otherwise have demolished the

God

the bursting-

take then as an illustration

boat

would carry

stream and ruin

side,

may come you,

interests

fastened,

hinders

from the smoking

something

ferry-boat.

is

grace",

possible, that in such a

is

current, which

it

to the fact that

it

not so deeply corrupt, but to

is

by His "common

forth of the flames ask,

we do not owe

hideousness,

its

and

it

is

He who

and meanwhile we our

cusi ng

making

it

it.

In this wise

restrains

brings forth good out of

Calvinists, never remiss in ac-

sinful nature, yet praise

possible for

God

men

and thank God

for

to dwell together in a well-

ordered society, and for restraining us personally from horrible sins. light

all

by means and

the

Moreover we thank Him talents,

hidden

in

our

for bringing to

race, developing,

of a regular process, the history of mankind,

securing

by the same

grace,

for

his

church oa

earth, a place for the sole of her foot.

This quite his

confession,

different

judgment,

belongs to

however,

places

position over against

not only

God and

in

tJie

clnirch,

the Christian in a life.

For

but also

then, in

tJie

ivorld

both has to be investigated the

masterpiece of the supreme Architect and Artificer.

A

Calvinist

who

seeks God, does not for a

moment

think of hmiting himself to theology and contemplation, leaving

the other sciences, as of a lower character, in

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