Calvinism - pagina 267

CALVINISM AND THE FQTURE. principle

as

263

the sole trustworthy foundation on which

to build.

we to understand by this return to Calvinism? Do I mean that all believing Protestants should subscribe the sooner the better to the Reformed

What

then

are

and

symbols,

thus

up

swallowed

organisation?

am

is

Reformed church-

of the

\

from cherishing so crude, so

far

As

ignorant, so unhistorical a desire.

there

be

multiformity

ecclesiastical

unity

the

in I

all

a matter of course,

inherent in every conviction, in every confession,

a motive for absolute and unconditional propagandism,

and the word of Paul with

that all

me

this day,

'^I

would to God

you

only, but also

Agrippa:

or with much, not

little

that hear

to

might become such as

I

am",

must remain the heart- felt wish not only of every good but of every

Calvinist,

But so

immovable conviction.

human

who may

one

First

of

even the purest,

Then again ligious, so

all,

infalHble as

is

was the word of Paul. \

highly spiritual, that, excepting always periods

/

the

Calvinistic confession

inevitability

to

the

it

is

will

never be rea-

large masses, but will impress with a sense

only a relatively small

thermore our inborn onesidedness lead

of the

so deeply re-

by the

its

desire

not one Reformed standard, not \

of profound religious commotion,

of

a

ideal

heart can never be realized, in this our dispen-

sation.

lized

glory in a firm

manifestation

will

of the

circle.

Fur-

always necessarily

church of Christ

in

many

forms.

scale

by one church of the members of another can

And,

last

not

least,

absorption on a large

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