Calvinism - pagina 174

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

I/O

and

Church

well, the

immense

those days had no idea of the

reserved for science, just awaking from

task,

mediaeval

its

in

nor

slumber,

of the ''struggle for

which was to be the indispensable rule of

The Church was unable

task.

its

in the

life,"

execution

to hail, in the

dawn

a rosy morn, heralding to the horizon the

of science,

new

rising of a

sun, but

saw

rather the

in its glittering

smouldering sparks, which threatened to set the world

on in

fire

and therefore she considered herself justified and

;

duty bound to quench

this fire

when we

principle,

for

very

its

favouring

common

underlying

had persisted

the world

this pernicious position

to

by

its

all

lead

who were caught

by

bearing

in

the

the word found

of

its

in a

and

invincible idea,

this

in

for

it

began by its

own

which was bound to

course of time has led to freedom of its

absolute expression in the principle,

domain oi payiicular

and that exempted from her

free

storm

always happens

opposition,

that the Church has to retire to the grace,

offering

by no means immediately understand

did

and yet the and

first

with efTectual

leaving the duty to extirpate error, untouched in code,

in

discovery of the sphere of

true, Calvinism, as

It is

cases, full

all

grace, and, before long, practically,

elsewhere.

the

its

Glory, therefore, to Calvinism, which

harbour

safe

such

if

theoretically

results;

a

cradle,

it.

condemning

would have smothered nascent science

it

abandoned

all

This position,

place ourselves back in those times, w^e can under-

stand, but not without firmly

of

to extinguish these

wherever an outbreak occurred.

flames

in

and

domain of

""""coiinnon

rule

grace".

lies

the wide

The

result of

was that the penalties of criminal law were gradually

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