Calvinism a life-system - pagina 267

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. principle

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the sole trustworthy foundation on which

as

to build.

What

then

we to understand by this return to mean that all believing Protestants

are

Do

Calvinism?

I

should subscribe the sooner the better to the Reformed

and

symbols,

swallowed

thus

up

organisation?

I

am

unity

is

be

of the Reformed church-

from cherishing so crude, so

far

As

ignorant, so unhistorical a desire.

there

multiformity

ecclesiastical

all

the

in

inherent in every

a matter of course,

conviction, in

every confession,

a motive for absolute and unconditional propagandism,

and the word of Paul that all

with

little

that hear

me

must remain the Calvinist,

sation.

heart-felt wish not only of every

good

may

one who

But so

ideal

\

First

of

the

all,

glory in a firm a

desire

of the

not one Reformed standard, not

was_tlie_.word_of^aul.

infallible as

is

Calvinistic confession

by the

large masses, but

inevitability

is

so deeply re-

excepting always periods

profound religious commotion,

its

only, but also

am",

ligious, so highly spiritual, that,

of

you

might become such as

heart can never be realized, in this our dispen-

Then again

lized

would to God

I

this day,

but of every

even the purest,

of

'•'I

Agrippa:

or with much, not

immovable conviction.

human

to

will

it

will

never be rea-

impress with a sense

only a relatively small

circle.

Fur-

thermore our inborn onesidedness will always necessarily lead

to

the

manifestation

of the

church of Christ

in

absorption on a large

many

forms.

scale

by one church of the members of another can

And,

last

not

least,

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