Calvinism a life-system - pagina 272

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

268 justified as

—

me

seems to

it

still

a fourth, that those

churches which yet lay claim to professing the Reformed

ashamed of this

shall cease being

faith,

have heard how broad

my

views

even

are,

my

conception and

Even

of development.

stage

the purest confession,

I

ness

to

may me

meet the

furled

\

But wh^t has always

under the garb

What one

dare

also

manner _of

recognizable by

its

in

the flag

instead of

glorious colours

word, deed and whole

church Calvinistic

its

with

of office,

confesses to be the truth, one

practise

to

A

life.

a higher

inevitable onesided-

its

being thrown out boldly to display

must

it

the church that has

of a church,

office-bearer

in the breeze.

hail in

was to behold a church or

indignation

hidden

or

.

and

for

thus be complemented. with

life.

would not dispense with the aid

of other churches in order that

filled

how wide

see the salvation of this

I

exalt multiformity

I

You

matter of ecclesiastical

in the

In free development only do Church-life.

confession.

Calvinistic

in origin

and

still

confession, which lacks

the courage, nay rather which no longer feels the impulse

to

against

defend

that

the

world,

all

Calvinism

but

itself.

confession

such

and bravely

boldly

a church dishonours not

Albeit the churches reformed in

bone and marrow may be small and few as

churches they

will

in

numbers,

always prove indispensable for

Calvinism; and here also the smallness of the seed need

not disturb

us, if

only that seed be sound and whole,

instinct with generative

And

thus

my

and

irrepressible

final lecture is rapidly

life.

drawing to

its

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