Calvinism - pagina 272

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

268 justified as

—

me

seems to

it

a fourth, that those

still

churches which yet lay claim to professing the Reformed shall cease being

faith,

ashamed of this

have heard how broad

my

views

even

are,

in

my

conception and

stage

Even

of development.

the purest confession,

I

for

may filled me to

meet the

was

indignation

But what has always

to behold a church or

under the garb

What one

the breeze.

must

dare

also

manner of

A

life.

its

instead of

glorious colours

confesses to be the truth, one

practise

to

with the flag

ot office,

being thrown out boldly to display in

a higher

inevitable onesided-

of a church,

office-bearer

hidden

or

furled

it

the church that has

its

thus be complemented.

with

life.

would not dispense with the aid

of other churches in order that ness

how wide

see the salvation of this

I

exalt multiformity and hail in

I

You

the matter of ecclesiastical

In free development only do Church-life.

confession.

in

word, deed and whole

church Calvinistic

in origin

and

still

by its Calvinistic confession, which lacks the courage, nay rather which no longer feels the imrecognizable

pulse

to

against

defend

that

the

world,

all

Calvinism

but

itself.

confession

such

and bravely

boldly

a church dishonours not

Albeit the churches reformed in

bone and marrow may be small and few as

churches they

will

in

numbers,

always prove indispensable for

Calvinism; and here also the smallness of the seed need

not disturb

us,

if

only that seed be sound and whole,

instinct with generative

And

thus

my

and

irrepressible

final lecture is rapidly

life.

drawing to

its

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