Calvinism - pagina 101

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

Now

compare with

of three centuries

Therefore

conscience.

Calvinism understood

to be saved

by

ethical philoso-

only by the restoration of tenderness of

but

phizing,

marvellous results

the

of Calvinism.

was not

that the world

this

all

97

it

did not indulge in reasoning,

but appealed directly to the soul, and placed

face to

with the Living God, so that the heart trembled,

face at

it

and

His holy majesty,

And

glory of His love.

the

majesty, discovered

in that

when, going back

in this

you observe how thoroughly corrupt and rotten Calvinism found the world, to what depth moral life at that time had sunk, in the courts, and

historical review,

among

among the leaders among men and women, among the higher

the people, in the clergy, and

of science,

— then

what censor

and the lower

classes

among you

dare to deny the palm of moral victory

to

will

Calvinism,

from the

which

still

in

one generation, though hunted

battlefield to the scaffold, created,

five nations at once,

and

of society:

wide serious groups of noble men,

nobler women, hitherto

loftiness of their ideal conceptions

power of

their

throughout

moral

self-control.

unsurpassed

in

and unequalled

the

in the

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