Calvinism a life-system - pagina 159

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. course,

155

wherever two elements appear, as

in this case

the sinner and the saint, the temporal and the eternal, the

terrestrial

and the heavenly

there

life,

is

always

danger of losing sight of their interconnection and of both by error or one-sidedness.

falsifying

must be confessed,

it

dualistic

escape this error.

not

It

between the

has,

life

of nature and the hfe of

on account of

too intense contem-

its

plation of celestial things, neglected to give to the world of God's creation.

fulfilment of

the

care of the body, because

its

And

the soul.

due attention

on account of

has,

temporal duties.

the

for'

It

of things eternal, been backward in

love

exclusive

its

A

was the cause of

conception of regeneration

the rupture grace.

did

Christendom,

it

one-sided,

this

has neglected

It

cared too exclusively

inharmonious con-

more than one

ception

in

sect

a mystic worshipping of Christ alone, to the

to

the

course

exclusion of

God

and

Christ

earth.

Saviour,

of time has led

the Father Almighty, Afaker 0/ /leaveji

was conceived exclusively

and His cosmological

significance

was

as

the

lost out

of sight.

This dualism, however,

by the Holy Saviour,

he

Word, by life

first

Whom

of men."

created

is

by no means countenanced

When John

Scriptures.

us that

tells

is

Christ

describing the

is

the

Paul also

by Christ and

that the object of the

testifies

consist

that

all

is

the

things were

by Him;" and

work of redemption

"eternal

Who

things are made, and

all

is

further,

not limited

to the salvation of individual sinners, but extends itself to

the

reunion

redemption of

all

of the world, and to the organic heaven and on earth under

things in

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