Calvinism a life-system - pagina 122

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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by

the

the

exercise

ordinances

Accordingly

powers,

of the

by

which,

virtue of

of creation, are innate in nature

Science

all

itself.

only the application to the

is

cosmos of the powers of investigation and thought, created within

Art

us; and

nothing but the natural

is

When

productivity of the potencies of our imagination.

we admit

mon

therefore that sin, though arrested

grace",

several

expressions

was

paradise

many

has caused of

modifications of these

which originated only

life,

and

lost,

by "comafter

disappear again, with the

will

coming of the Kingdom of glory;

— we

still

rnaintain that

the fundamental character of these expressions remains as

it

was

All together they form the

originally.

life

creation, in accord with the ordinances of creation,

of

and

therefore are organically developed.

But the case

is

wholly different with the assertion of

For though

the powers of government. that

even

itself

of combining the

this unity

Kingship

without

many

families, in a

higher unity

would have internally been bound up in the God, which would have ruled regularly,

of

and

directly

be admitted

need would have asserted

the

sin

it

harmoniously

in

the

hearts

of

all

and which would externally have incorporated a

patriarchal

as

its

which

But

King; exactly what awaits it

is

States would have

only one organic world-empire, with

but

existed,

Thus no

hierarchy.

us,

when

exactly

from our human

this,

life.

This government of

all

is

God

prophesied for the future

sin shall

which

have disappeared.

sin has

now

eliminated

This unity does no longer

God

men,

itself in

can

no longer assert

This patriarchal hierarchy has been destroyed.

exist. itself.

A world-

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