Calvinism a life-system - pagina 164

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

l60 devotion

Yea,

their sense of honesty. in

by

by being confronted with

occasionally

thus a

Yet,

that your

fact,

dogma

you now run

if

opposite direction

the

to

and proceed from these experimental not

/

forget,

?

of total depravity

not always tally with your experience in

does

sin

life.

this attract-

called the "virtues of the heathen"

is

It is

over

it

and who among us has not himself been put blush

the

what

not pass

might have more of

certain believers

iveness,

to

we may

not unfrequently you entertain the desire,

silence,

that

and

their love, their candor, their faithfulness

,

your

that

entire

facts,

to

the ground, for then you look upon

as

good and incorrupt; the criminal

human

villains

pitied as ethically-insane; regeneration

fluous in order to live

you must

Christian confession

is

falls

nature

have to be

entirely super-

honourably and your imagination ;

of higher grace seems to be nothing else than playing

with a medicine, which often proves entirely ineffectual.

True, some people save themselves from this awkward

by speaking

position

of the virtues of unbelievers as

"splendid vices", and, on the other hand, the sins of believers to old selves, that this

Rome well

tried

known

is

to

Adam,

by charging

yet you

feel,

your-

a subterfuge, which lacks earnestness. find

a better

way

of escape in the

doctrine of the piira naturalia.

Romanists

taught that there existed two spheres of life, the earthly or the merely

higher

than

enjoyments

celestial

Adam God

human here human as

the

in

below,

and the heavenly,

such;

the latter offering

the

vision

of

according to this theory, was well

for

both spheres,

for the

common

Now, prepared by God.

sphere of

life

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