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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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and making

ising

a rule for all believers.

it

from Calvinism, but from

Akosmism had mish theory,

with

distinction

many

so

difference:

this

room

in the

Protestants in

that

it

between the two moral standards,

and the other

one for the

clergy

Anabaptist's standpoint was:

the

placed the

of the Church, and aban-

the

rest

was not

Anabaptism adopted the Ro-

In fact

kingdom of God doned the

among

rise

its

Western Europe.

It

this anabaptistic principle, that

For

for the laity. i.

that the

unbaptized world was under the curse, for which reason

he withdrew from

of baptized believers

circle

with him the kingdom of take

all civil life

institutions; atid 2, that the

all civil

under

— with Rome the Church, but God — was in duty bound to

its

guardianship and to remodel

and so John of Leyden violently established

it;

shameless power at Munster as King of the Neiv

and

his devotees ran

naked through the

his

Zion,.

streets of

Am-

Hence, on the same grounds on which Cal-

sterdam.

vinism rejected Rome's theory concerning the world,

it

rejected

the theory of the Anabaptist, and proclaimed

that the

Church must withdraw again within

domain,

and that

potencies of God's

Thus

it

is

shown

starting-point of tions of all to

its

human

man and

to

in

we should

the world

common

its

spiritual

realize the

grace.

that Calvinism has a sharply-defined

own

for the three

existence:

the zvorld.

an immediate fellowship of

viz.,

For our

man

fundamental

rela-

our relation to God^ relation to

God:

with the Eternal, inde-

pendently of priest or church. For the relation of man to

man: the

which

is

his

recognition in each person of human worth,

by

virtue of his creation after the Divine

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