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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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who

penitent

silent

subterranean

his

expression,

Horizontally,

cave.

same thought

the

immured

himself to be

causes

finds

may

if I

use this

embodiment

separation between sacred and secular ground.

uncountenanced and uncared

thing

upon

looked

is

exorcism

in

are really

meant

being

as

baptism

us,

the

in

Every-

the church,

lower character, and

of a

tells

by

for

in

that these lozver things

Now,

to be unholy.

it is

evident that

such a standpoint did not invite Christians to make a

study of earthly things.

Nothing but a study appertain-

ing to the sphere of heavenly things and contemplation

who under such

could attract those

guard over the sanctuary of the

a banner

had mounted

ideal.

This conception of the moral condition of

man

fallen

has been opposed in principle by Calvinism, on the one

hand by taking our conception of absolute

sense,

which

good

is

grace.

Sin,

accord

with

the

would forthwith have

its

of his

the

He

and

led to a

be inferred from

But God

grace,

however does not life

sin,

has interfered in the

by His common kill

eternal,

just

life

of

of mankind as a whole, and

life

of nature itself

of

may

in full

handiwork, which naturally

divine

life

effectuation

as

is

unbridled

sin

days before the flood.

in the

unto

life,

common

course in order to prevent the complete

would have followed.

save

which

itself,

arrested sin in

it

of

Scriptures,

in the

in

dogma

Calvinism,

to

degeneracy of human

individual,

the

Holy

what was seen

the

man by

in fallen

according

annihilation

the most

in

and on the other by explaining that

unfettered, left to total

sin

as

the core of

but

it

grace.

sin,

This

nor does

arrests the complete

human

insight arrests the

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