Calvinism a life-system - pagina 162

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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of the

terrestrial globe formed in his estimation one whole with the investigation of the length and breadth

of the love

Christ,

and

He saw

of Christ.

two works

of God, in

both he adored that majesty of Almighty

God, which transported light

In this

means, whereby we kwow and NaUire. And still more

of two

speak

Confessions

God,

his soul into ecstacy.

deserving of notice that our best Calvinistic

is

it

himself placed before

the one in creation, the other in

the Scriptures

viz.

remarkable

it

is,

that Calvin, instead of simply treating

many Theologians were inclined to do, was accustomed to compare the Nature as an accessorial item, as so

Scriptures to a pair of spectacles, enabling us to deci-

pher again the divine Thoughts, written by God's

book of Nature, which had become

in

the

in

consequence

of the

curse.

nature,

were wasting

and

idle

that

for

things.

It

Thus vanished

who occupied

dread possibility, that he

capacities

his

was

every

himself with

in pursuit of vain

perceived,

God's sake, our attention

Hand

obliterated

on the contrary,

may

not be with-

drawn from the hfe of nature and creation; the study of the body regained its place of honour beside the study of the soul; and the social organization of mankind well

on earth was again looked upon as being as worthy an object of human science as the con-

gregation

of the

perfect

saints

explains the close relation

and Humanism. to

substitute

life

In in

as this

in

heaven.

This also

existing between Calvinism

far

as

Humanism endeavored

world for the eternal, every

opposed the Humanist. But Humanist contented himself with

Calvinist

in as

the

a

much

plea

for

as

a

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