Calvinism - pagina 170

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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might throw new

cosmos

thorough

if

on

scientific

a

different

of the entire

glories its

invisible opera-

standpoint,

knowledge on these

progress in

lines often led

and estranges the heart from God, we owe

to pride

dogma

to this glorious

of

common

it

grace that in Calvin-

most profound investigator never ceased

circles the

istic

the

phenomena and

in its visible

And

tions.

on

h'ght

acknowledge himself a guilty sinner before God, and

to

ascribe

to

God's mercy alone,

to

his splendid

under-

standing of the things of the world.

Having proved that Calvinism has and

science

now

restored

science

to

show

in the third place to

advanced

its

not

mean

use

of

that

air

liberty

its

Liberty

we breathe

science

is

is

entirely

and

free

to perish, while a fish,

by water and guided by with

science its

has

subject,

to

and

its

tie,

This does

laws.

in the

On

the

perfectly free, viz.,

which really

can science

In the

fins.

shall

be

same manner

keep up the closest connection strictly to

proper method; and only when double

for genuine

untrammeled

is

has

it

and to thrive must be entirely surrounded

to live

every

is

for us.

and need obey no

contrary, a fish lying on dry land to die

what manner

in

me

domain, allow

its

indispensable liberty.

what the

science,

fostered love for

move

obey the claims of strictly

bound by

freely on.

For the

its

this

liberty

of science does not consist in licentiousness or lawlessness,

but

in

its

being freed from

all

unnatural bonds,

unnatural because they arc not rooted in

its vital

prin-

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