Calvinism a life-system - pagina 15

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. "Beggars",

North America "Pilgrim Fathers", yet

in

products of the Reformation which on your

these

all

Great Britain "Puritans" and "Presby-

in

and

terians",

II

Continent and ours bore the special Reformed type, were

But the extent of the Calvinistic

of Calvinistic origin.

domain should not be Hmited

Nobody Within

applies such an exclusive rule to Christianity. its

we embrace not only Western Russia, the Balkan States, the Arme-

boundaries

Europe, but also nians, it is

to these purer revelations.

and even Menelik's empire

but just that in the same

in Abyssinia.

way we should

Calvinistic fold those churches also

more or

the

Articles,

even

from

less

Church of England

though

is

In her

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strictly Calvinistic,

Hierarchy and Liturgy she has

her

in

include in the

which have diverged

purer forms.

its

Therefore

abandoned the straight paths, and has met with the serious

results

tualism.

ot

departure in Puseyism and Ri-

this

The Confession

Calvinistic,

even though

of the Independents was equally

in their

conception of the Church

the organic structure was broken if

opposed it

by individuaHsm.

And

under the leadership of Wesley most Methodists became

is

to the theological interpretation of Calvinism,

nevertheless the Calvinistic spirit itself that created

this spiritual reaction against the pertrifying church-life

of the times. In a given sense therefore

it

may be

said,

that the entire field which in the end was covered

the

Reformation,

so

far

as

not Socinian, was dominated

Even the the that

Baptists

Calvinists.

It

applied is

accounts for the

the

it

in

for free

by was not Lutheran and principle by Calvinism. shelter at the tents of

character

rise of these

of Calvinism

several shades and

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