Calvinism - pagina 31

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

Hence we cannot recognize any

man.

to

among men,

He

and

less,

systems of

not

it

either in

person or

exhibit superiority that

merely

all

open slavery and

covert slavery of

all

opposed to

all

hierarchy

no aristocracy save such as

tolerates

it

is

in

more talents should serve the him serve his God. Hence Cal-

but also

caste,

and of the poor; men;

one authority over the other,

of

in

condemns

vinism

gavje

man

order that the with

God

one with more talents than the other,

enriched

man

distinction

save such as has been imposed by

Himself, in that or

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woman among able,

is

by the grace of God, to of character or talent, and to show in family,

does not claim this superiority for self-aggrand-

it

izement or ambitious pride, but for the sake of spending it

So Calvinism was bound

the service of God.

in

find

its

utterance in the

life;

to

proclaim

rest until

both

because he

is

the

democratic interpretation of of nations;

and not to

socially every

man, simply

liberty

politically

to

and

man, should be recognized, respected and

dealt with as a creature created after the Divine likeness.

This was no outcome of envy. of

lower estate

who reduced

It

was not the man

his superior to his level

men kneeling in concert at the feet of the Holy One of Israel. This accounts for the fact that Calvinism made

in

order to usurp the higher place, but

no sudden break with the

past.

Even

it

was

as in

all

its

early

stage Christianity did not abolish slavery, but undermined it

by a moral judgment,

provisional

It

Calvinism

allowed

the

continuance of the conditions of hierarchy

and aristocracy Ages.

so

as

traditions

belonging to the Middle

was not charged against William of Orange, that

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