Lectures on Calvinism (Stone Lectures, 1898) by Abraham Kuyper

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And for our relation to the world: the recognition that in the whole world the curse is restrained by grace, that the life of the world is to be honored in its independence, and that we must, in every domain, discover the treasures and develop the potencies hidden by God in nature and in human life.

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Lectures on Calvinism (Stone Lectures, 1898)

Primary text - Lecture I: Calvinism as a Life-System, p. 37

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