Calvinism a life-system - pagina 185

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. be

can

nothing

said

l8l

against his personal stand- point,

provided that, thinking as he does, he shows the couvoluntarily leave

to

rage,

all

denominations.

its

If the character of is

the Christian church in

the keen and unavoidable conflict

thus and not otherwise, behold then the unconquer-

which Calvinism points out to us

position

able strain

and

keep

not

from

struggle, resulting

busy with

itself

this conflict.

useless apologetics

in It

does

it

;

the

does

not turn the great battle into a skirmish about one of

outworks,

the

proceed as

man

of science has to

This consciousness, just

consciousness.

Jiis

on account of the abnormal character of the same in

been

not

sound from case. ful

If

all.

broken, all

consciousness

wanting,

in the

other

it is

fact,

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not

this

is

not the

jzVms very power-

either feeble or entirely

in the one the certainty

and clearness as a

decision

is

would emit the same

In the one the consciousness

and strong,

things,

the normal condition of things had

but as a matter of

;

human

goes back to

immediately

but

from which every

consciousness,

of faith speaks with

result of regeneration, the

other does not even understand what

it is.

So

also in the

one the Testimonium Spiritus Sancti resounds loudly and in

tones

that

these

he

firm

has

three,

and strong, while the other never

yet

heard

consciousness

of

its

sin,

and the testimony of the Holy elements

They

in

form

the its

consciousness

immediate

declares,

testimony. certainty

Now, of faith

Spirit, are constituent

of

contents.

every

Calvinist.

Without these

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