Calvinism - pagina 175

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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. reduced to a dead

and

that, to instance

only one

who had to leave Roman Catholic found among the Calvinists of the Netherlands,

Des

case,

letter,

I71

France,

Cartes,

of course a scientific antagonist in Voetius, but in the

republic a safe retreat.

To

this

must add that

I

to flourish a

demand for

to that end the public long,

order to cause science

in

had

science

mind had

to be created,

to be

made

and

As

free.

however, as the Church stretched out her velum

over the entire drama of public

life,

the state of bondage

naturally continued, because the only object of to merit heaven and to enjoy as

much

life

was

of the world as

the Church considered to be consistent with this main end.

From

this point of

any one should be

view

The

eternal hfe,

besides

on

its

earth,

and

was unimaginable, that

willing to devote himself with

and with the investigators love existence.

it

to the study of our earthly

seeking love of it

sympathy

all

was directed towards

could not be realized that Christianity,,

yearning for eternal salvation, has to perform

by

divine commission, a grand task with regard

to the cosmos.

This new conception was

by Calvinism when

first

cut at the root in the

it

ute sense of every idea, that

life

introduced

most absol-

on earth were ever des-

tined to merit the blessedness of heaven. This blessedness, for every true Calvinist, is

sealed

this

by the perseverance of the

manner the

of indulgences,

the

grows out of regeneration, and saints.

Calvinism called Christendom back to :

"Replenish the earth, subdue

and have dominion over everything that life

in

''certainty of faith" supplanted the traffic

order of creation

Christian

Where

as a pilgrimage

lives

upon

it

it."

was not changed, but the

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