Calvinism - pagina 185

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. be

can

nothing

said

l8l

against his personal stand-point,

provided that, thinking as he does, he shows the couvoluntarily

to

rage,

leave

all

denominations.

its

If the character of the is

the Christian church in

keen and unavoidable

conflict

thus and not otherwise, behold then the unconquer-

which Calvinism points out to us

able position strain

and

keep

not

from

struggle, resulting

this conflict.

busy with useless apologetics

itself

in It

does

does

it

;

the

not turn the great battle into a skirmish about one of outworks,

the

goes back to hinnan

immediately

but

man

from which every

consciousness,

of science has to

This consciousness, just

proceed as his consciousness.

on account of the abnormal character of the same in

been

not

broken,

sound from case. ful

If

all.

all

wanting.

in the other

it is

one the Testimonium tones

that

these

he

firm

has

three,

Spiritiis

They

in

form

very power-

it is.

So

also in the

Sancti resounds loudly and

and strong, while the other never

yet

heard

consciousness

the its

of

its

sin,

consciousness

immediate

not the

result of regeneration, the

and the testimony of the Holy elements

is

is

of faith speaks with

other does not even understand what

in

this

fact,

either feeble or entirely

In the one the certainty

and clearness as a

decision

not

consciousness would emit the same

In the one the consciousness of sin

and strong,

is

the normal condition of things had

but as a matter of

;

things,

declares,

Now,

testimony. certainty

of

faith

Spirit, are constituent

of

contents.

every

Calvinist.

Without these

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