Calvinism - pagina 122

8

I

;

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

1

by the the

by

which,

virtue of

of creation, are innate in nature

ordinances

Accordingly

powers,

of the

exercise

Science

all

itself.

only the application to the

is

cosmos of the powers of investigation and thought, created within

us

and Art

;

nothing but the natural

is

When

productivity of the potencies of our imagination.

we admit

mon

therefore that sin, though arrested

several

expressions

was

paradise

many

has caused

grace",

of

modifications of these

which originated only

life,

and

lost,

by '^comafter

disappear again, with the

will

coming of the Kingdom of glory;

— we

still

maintain that

the fundamental character of these expressions remains as

it

was

All together they form the Hfe of

originally.

creation, in accord with the ordinances of creation,

and

therefore are orgaiiically developed.

But the case

wholly different with the assertion of

is

For though

the powers of government. that

even

itself

of combining the

without

be admitted

need would have asserted

the

sin

it

many

families, in a

higher unity

this unity

would have internally been bound up

Kingship

of

which would have ruled regularly,

God,

and

directly

harmoniously

in

the

hearts

of

all

and which would externally have incorporated a

patriarchal

as

its

which

But

Thus no

hierarchy.

King; exactly what awaits it

is

us,

when

exactly

from our human

this,

life.

This government of

all

is

States would have

God

prophesied for the future

sin shall

have disappeared.

w^hich sin has

now

eliminated

This unity does no longer

God

men,

itself in

only one organic world-empire, with

but

existed,

in the

can

no longer assert

This patriarchal hierarchy has been destroyed.

exist. itself.

A world-

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