Calvinism - pagina 15

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. "Beggars",

and

terians",

North America "Pilgrim

in

P'athers", yet

of the Reformation which on your

products

these

all

and "Presby-

Great Britain "Puritans"

in

II

Continent and ours bore the special Reformed type, were

But the extent of the Calvinistic

of Calvinistic origin.

domain should not be hmited

Nobody Within

applies such an exclusive rule to Christianity. its

we embrace not only Western Russia, the Balkan States, the Arme-

boundaries

Europe, but also nians, it is

to these purer revelations^

and even Menelik's empire

but just that in the same

in Abyssinia.

way we should

the

Articles,

even

from

less

its

purer forms.

Church of England

though

is

In her

XXXIX

strictly Calvinistic,

Hierarchy and Liturgy she has

her

in

include in the

which have diverged

Calvinistic fold those churches also

more or

Therefore

abandoned the straight paths, and has met with the serious

results

tualism.

The

Calvinistic,

of

departure in Puseyism and Ri-

this

Confession of the Independents was equally

even though

in their

conception of the Church

the organic structure was broken if

by

individualism.

And

under the leadership of Wesley most Methodists became

opposed to the theological interpretation of Calvinism, it

is

nevertheless the Calvinistic spirit itself that created

this spiritual reaction against the pertrifying church-life

of the times. In a given sense therefore

it

may

be

said,

that the entire field which in the end was covered

the

Reformation,

so

far

as

not Socinian, was dominated

Even the the that

Baptists

applied is

the

accounts for the

rise

Calvinists.

It

it

was not Lutheran and

in principle

for free

by

by Calvinism.

shelter at the tents of

character

of these

of Calvinism

several shades and

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