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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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had

bound

to be

Church by the

to the

from the cradle to the grave

family-life

effort to claim the entire

of necessity brought with

every

it

withdrew

for

heretic,

but one which

itself

either

as

heretical

from

the

blessing

fit

principle both lay

in

was to be placed

for Christ,

Hence the stake was

Church.

and

;

the severest judgment upon

which

life-tendency

demoniacal

world

of guilds

This was a gigantic

ecclesiastical guardianship.

under

tie

or

as

of the

and

alike for witch

under the same ban.

And

this

logic,

not from cruelty, nor from any low ambition, but

deadening theory was carried out with iron

from the

lofty

purpose of saving the christianized world,

by the Church. Escape

the world as overshadowed

i.e.,

from

world was the counterpoise

the

in

monastic and

partly even in clerical orders, which emphasized holiness

centrum

the

in

more

of the

Church

in

order to wink the

lightly at worldly excesses without.

result

the

world corrupted

the

Church,

As

a natural

and by

its

dominion over the world the Church proved an obstacle to every free

development of

Thus making

its

its

appearance

in a dualistic social state

has wrought an entire change in the world

Calvinism

of thoughts and conceptions. before for

also

the

face of

God,

it

In this also, placing itself

has not only honored

the

world

to

the

as

a Divine creation,

and has

at

front the great pinciple that there

particular grace

which

works

com7Hon grace by which God,

Salvation,

once is

a

and also a

maintaining the

the world, relaxes the curse which rests upon its

man

sake of his likeness to the Divine image, but

the

placed

life.

it,

life

of

arrests

process of corruption, and thus allows the untram-

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