Calvinism a life-system - pagina 95

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. eye;

— thus

history.

does

the ever-present

for

only

the

is

itself in

in all things the deepest, the

Always and

of life,— this

type present

the Calvinistic

sacred reverence

9I

God

most

as the rule

picture of the original

true

Puritan.

The avoidance vinistic

mark,

of the world has never been the Cal-

but

specific, anabaptistical

this.

According to

cing

themselves

world. to

They

stood in opposition to

they abhorred

new world,

They

this is just

denied.

It is

one and

this

again,

all

Here

midst of this

do with

this

obligation

and

to

and

Calvinist always disputed

not true that there are two worlds, a bad

\h.e

same person

and who afterwards is

offices.

of contamination, and contagion.

what the

one and a good, which are is

military service;

in the

rejected

refused

towards the old world, and they avoided

it systematically, for fear

But

all

which however had nothing

our present existence. reponsibility

They

it.

holding of public

already, they shaped a sin,

of "avoidance" proves

"saints",

they condemned the

world of

dogma

dogma, the Anabaptists, announwere severed from the

this

as

the oath;

take

of the Anabaptist.

shibboleth

the

The

fitted into

whom God

same "ego" of the old

sinner

into eternal

life.

It

created perfect

and became a sinner;

fell,

and who enters

each other.

who

— and is

So, also,

it

born it

is

same world which once exhibited all the one and glory of Paradise, which was afterwards smitten with the curse, and which, since the Fall, is upheld by common the

'grace; Christ,

horror

which has now been redeemed and saved by in its centre, and v/hich shall pass through the of the

judgment

into

the state of glory. For

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