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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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devotion, their love, their candor, their faithfuhiess and

Yea,

their sense of honesty.

not unfrequently you

silence,

in

blush

the

what It

by

this attract-

by being confronted with

occasionally

heathen"?

is

thus a

sin

does

fact,

that your

dogma

of total depravity

not always tally with your experience

if

you now run

forget,

your

that

entire

facts,

you must

Christian confession

to

the ground, for then you look upon

as

good and incorrupt; the criminal

human

villains

pitied as ethically-insane; regeneration

fluous in order to live

in

opposite direction

the

to

and proceed from these experimental not

over

entertain the desire,

called the "virtues of the

is

Yet,

life.

it

and who among us has not himself been put

iveness,

to

pass

might have more of

certain believers

that

we may not

is

falls

nature

have to be

entirely super-

honourably and your imagination ;

of higher grace seems to be nothing else than playing

with a medicine, which often proves entirely ineffectual.

True, some people save themselves from this awkward

by speaking of the

position ••^splendid

on the other hand, by charging

vices", and,

the sins of believers to old selves, that this

Rome well

tried

known

is

to

virtues of unbeHevers as

Adam,

yet you

feel,

}'our-

a subterfuge, which lacks earnestness. find

a better

way

of escape in the

doctrine of the piira naturalia.

Romanists

taught that there existed two spheres of life, the earthly or the

higher

human here than the human as merely

enjoyments

celestial

Adam God

in

below,

and the heavenly,

such

the latter offering

the

;

vision

of

according to this theory, was well

for

both spheres,

for the

common

Now, prepared by God.

sphere of

life

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