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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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had to be bound

Church by the

to the

from the cradle to the grave under

of necessity brought with

every

withdrew

for

in

one which

the severest judgment upon as

from

itself

Hence the stake was

Church. heretic,

it

and

;

was to be placed

for Christ, but

which either

life-tendency

demoniacal

world

of guilds

This was a gigantic

ecclesiastical guardianship.

effort to claim the entire

tie

family-life

heretical

or

as

the blessing of the

fit

and

alike for witch

principle both lay 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, the world as overshadowed

i.e.,

by the Church. Escape

from the world was the counterpoise

in

monastic and

partly even in clerical orders, which emphasized hohness

the

in

more

centrum

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 Calvinism

its

appearance

for

also

the

the

face of

in a dualistic social state

God,

it

In this also, placing itself

has not only honored

to

the

a Divine creation, and has at once

front the great pinciple that there

partiailar grace

which

works Salvation,

is

a

and also a

common grace by which God, maintaining

the

the world, relaxes the curse which rests upon its

man

sake of his likeness to the Divine image, but

the ivorld as

placed

life.

has wrought an entire change in the world

of thoughts and conceptions. before

its

it,

life

of

arrests

process of corruption, and thus allows the untram-

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