Calvinism - pagina 255

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CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

Romish philosophy and social

of

Rome's

25

successful efforts in

could account for such a superficial judgment.

life,

Calvin in his day already acknowledged that, as against a

from

spirit

believers

his

A

allies.

need only mark doctrines

Romish

the Great Deep, he considered

orthodox Protestant

so-called

and catechism such

in his confession

of religion and morals as are not subject to

Rome and

between

controversy

we have

immediately, that what

ourselves, to perceive

common

in

with

Rome

concerns precisely those fundamentals of our Christian

now

creed spirit.

most

fiercely

assaulted

by the modern

Undoubtedly on the points of the man's nature before and

of

hierarchy,

ecclesiastical

after the Fall,

of justification, of the mass, of the invocation of saints

and

of the

angels,

worship

of purgatory

of images,

and many others, we are as unflinchingly opposed to

Rome

as our fathers were.

rature

show

of the age

lines of battle

Christ

of

;

God

cross

a

the

cross

as

by

drawn

sin

the

given

now

that these are not

the struggle

Pantheism

But does not current

over

against

over

the points on which

:

Theism over against

imperfection

against Jesus

the

human product; the by God over against the ordinances of God

;

the divine

mere man; over against

of reconciliation

symbol of martyrdom

inspiration

Are not the

concentrated?

as follows

sacrifice

a

is

lite-

;

the Bible as

God over against ten commandments as

of

a

purely

ordained

a mere archaeological document;

absolutely established over against

an ever-changing law and morality spun out of man's subjective is

consciousness?

Now

in

this

not an antagonist, but stands on our

conflict side,

Rome

inasmuch

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