Calvinism a life-system - pagina 23

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

At every moment of our life

God

rests in

existence, our entire spiritual

The "Deo

Himself.

not the starting-point but the

result,

was inexorably maintained, not

man from man,

nor

1

was

Soli Gloria"

and predestination

for the sake of separating

in the interest of personal pride,

but in order to guarantee from eternity to eternity, to

our inner

a direct and immediate

self,

The

the Living God.

therefore with the Calvinist

first

of a Church, which placed

itself

The Church

God.

independent

Almighty.

faith

as

in

which

is

required

aimed

the dismissal

all at

office,

nor

in

an

themselves were the

they stood

in

touch with

Paganism, Islamism and

also in Calvinism

definite interpretation of the

God,

Rome

between the soul and

consisted not in an

Thus,

Romanism, so to

of

institute, the believers

Church, inasmuch as by the

communion with

opposition against

is

found that proper,

fundamental relation of man as the first condition of a

real life-system.

Meanwhile place,

may

it

k>r Calvinism

To

this

I

I

antictpate

two objections.

be asked, whether

I

In the first

do not claim honours

which belong to Protestantism

reply in

the

negative.

When

in general. I

claim

for

Calvinism the honour of having reestablished the direct fellowship

with

God,

I

do not undervalue the general

significance of Protestantism.

taken

in

by the ,

nome

side of Calvinism.

in

In the Protestant domain,

the historic sense, Lutheranism alone stands

my

Now

I

wish to be second to

praises of Luther's heroic initiative.

In his

heart, rather than in the heart of Calvin, was the bitter

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