Calvinism a life-system - pagina 163

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. proper

was

acknowledgment of secular

I

the

life,

59

Calvinist

his ally.

Now grace'',

dogma

proceed to consider the

I

of '•''common

outcome of the general

natural

that

just presented to you,

but

principle,

in its special application to

sm, understood as corruption of our nature. before us a riddle, which in itself

Sin places

insoluble.

is

you

If

view sin as a deadly poison, as enmity against God, leading to everlasting condemnation, and

as

present a sinner

as

any good, and prone salvable only,

then

it

if

seems as

to

all

God by

and on

evil,"

you

re-

this

account

regeneration changes his heart,

of necessity

if

if

being "wholly incapable of doing

unbelievers and un-

all

regenerate persons

ought to be wicked and repulsive

men.

far

But

actual

down

the

many

to us find

is

On

life.

excels in

you

this

from

being our experience in

contrary

from the old heathen

you

which

pages

you holy sentiments.

in

own

surroundings,

that

which

productions

which

genius

is

you consider your

studies

how much

you,

or the

infidels,

stirs

reported to you, and

of professed

attracts

often

if

tone and

you derive from the

and

literary

there

is

with

which you sympathize and

It is

not exclusively the spark of

splendor of talent, which excites your

pleasure in the words it

Cicero fascinates

his noble

is

come

In Plato

civilization.

And

that which

which you admire.

world

unbelieving

devour.

you and bears you along by up

the

Precious treasures have

things.

their

and actions of

beauty

unbelievers, but

of character, their

zeal, their

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