Calvinism a life-system - pagina 156

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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and showing us instead of

opinions, mists,

stream, taking

rising

many

has gone through

fierce struggles

Calvinism

it.

on account of

clinging to the counsel of God's decree.

again

falling

course through a well regulated bed

its

towards an ocean which waits to receive

its

and

of a powerfully-rushing mountain

picture

the

Again and

seemed to be near the brink of destruction.

it

Calvinism has been reviled and slandered on account of

and when

it,

refused to exclude even our sinful

from God's plan, because without

actions

gramme

what they

God

the author of

Through

did.

not allowed

itself to

its

confession.

life

its

among

us,

circles

people,

and for

in

wide

the

manifest

this

knowledge was

days was nowhere

need

in Calvinistic countries.

that

in the writings of those

comprehensive

such

view

has

of

must be under

an

is

world-view, fostered of the

common that a

the reason,

quickened,

satisfied in a

than

a determination,

It

need of unity of insight,

its

firmness of knowledge, order in

even

not

and order, established by God

tmity, solidity

This accounts for

himself.

They knew

be deprived by scoff and scorn of

the firm conviction, that our entire

sway of

sin.

report and good report

evil

Calvinism has firmly maintained

thirst

the pro-

opponents did not shrink from accusing

of making

the

it

of the order of the world would agaia be rent

to pieces, our

us

it

which

in

those

more abundant measure

This explains

why

it

is,

days you meet with such

energy of thought, such a

life.

I

even

venture

to say,

memoirs of noble women of that century,

that in

the

and

the correspondence of the unlettered, an unity

in

of world-view and life-view

is

manifest, which impressed

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