Calvinism - pagina 23

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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

At every moment of our life rests in God Himself.

existence, our entire spiritual

The "Deo

not the starting-point but the

result,

was inexorably maintained, not

man from man, but

1

was

Soli Gloria"

and predestination

for the sake of separating

nor in the interest of personal pride,

order to guarantee from eternity to eternity, to

in

our inner

a direct and immediate

self,

The

the Living God.

communion with

Rome

opposition against

therefore with the Calvinist

first

of

all

aimed

at the dismissal

of a Church, which placed itself between the soul and

The Church

God.

independent

consisted not in an

institute,

Almighty.

faith

Thus, as

Romanism, so

in

they stood

God,' which

is

in

an

required

in

touch with

Paganism, Islamism and

also in Calvinism

definite interpretation of the

to

nor

the believers themselves were the

Church, inasmuch as by the

office,

is

found that proper,

fundamental relation of man as the first condition of a

real life-system.

Meanwhile place,

may

it

for Calvinism

To

this

I

I

anticipate

two objections.

be asked, whether

I

In the first

do not claim honours

which belong to Protestantism

reply

in

the negative.

When

in general. I

claim

for

Calvinism the honour of having reestablished the direct fellowship

with

God,

I

do not undervalue the general

significance of Protestantism.

taken

in

by the

nome heart,

the historic sense, Lutheranism alone stands

side of Calvinism.

in

In the Protestant domain,

my

Now

I

wish to be second to

praises of Luther's heroic initiative.

In his

rather than in the heart of Calvin, was the bitter

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