Calvinism - pagina 270

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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you owe But,

and behold, while you are thus enjoying the

lo

and while even

of Calvinism,

fruits

and to Calvinism alone.

Calvinism

to

this

of your

outside

borders the constitutional system of government as an

out-come of Calvinistic honour,

accounted

one

whispered abroad that

is

it

these are to be

all

Humanism, and honouring in them the

blessings

thinks of

still

upholds the national

warfare,

of

any

scarcely

after-effect of

Calvinism, the latter being believed to lead a lingering life

I

only

few dogmatically petrified

in a

demand

and demand with an

then,

circles.

historic right,

is

come

to

that this ungrateful ignoring of Calvinism shall

end

an

where

attention

receive

the

the influence

that

:

actual

wholly

different

current

of

spirit

pantheistic channels,

we on our such

where men of a

would unobservedly divert the

you on

and

this side of the water,

should oppose with might and main

side,

falsification

that,

French- revolutionary or German-

into

life

remains stamped upon

and

to-day;

of

life

has exerted shall again

it

still

it

What

of the historic principles of our

That we ma}- be enabled

to

do

so,

contend

I

life.

in

the

second place for an historical study of the principles of

No

Calvinism.

has

lost

its

love without knowledge; and Calvinism

place

in

the

hearts of the people.

It

is

being advocated only from a theological point of view,

and even then very one-sidedly and merely issue.

The

vious

lecture.

cause of this Since

The

of

tree

its

have pointed out

Calvinism

abstract system, but from

century

I

life

arose,

itself,

it

not

as a sidein a pre-

from

never was

an

in the

prime presented as a systematic whole.

blossomed and

}-ielded its fruit,

but without

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