Calvinism a life-system - pagina 170

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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might throw new Hght

cosmos

And

tions.

thorough

on

if

scientific

a

different

of the entire

glories

invisible opera-

its

standpoint,

knowledge on these

progress in

lines often led

and estranges the heart from God, we owe

to pride

dogma

to this glorious

of

common

to acknowledge himself a guilty sinner before God, ascribe

to

to

it

grace that in Calvin-

most profound investigator never ceased

circles the

istic

on the

phenomena and

in its visible

and

God's mercy alone, his splendid under-

standing of the things of the world.

Having proved that Calvinism has fostered love for and restored to science its domain, allow me

science

now

in the third place to

advanced

its

what the

science,

not

mean

use

of

its

show

air

Liberty

we breathe

that science liberty

is

is

entirely

and to

perish, while a fish,

is

for us.

is

has

it

for genuine

This does

untrammeled

and need obey no

contrary, a fish lying on dry land to die

what manner

in

indispensable liberty.

laws.

in the

On

the

perfectly free, viz.,

which really

shall

be

to live and to thrive must be entirely surrounded by water and guided by its fins. In the same manner free

every with

science its

has

subject,

to

and

keep up the closest connection strictly to

proper method; and only when double

tie,

can science

move

obey the claims of strictly

freely on.

bound by For the

its

this

liberty

of science does not consist in licentiousness or lawlessness,

but in

its

being freed from

all

unnatural bonds,

unnatural because they are not rooted in

its vital

prin-

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