Calvinism - pagina 71

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. sideration of the misery of

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in this lofty

life,

impression

of the holiness of God, and in this staunchness of his convictions, v/hich led

the

the

end,

bitter

necessity

first

secondly,

the

him

to follow his conclusions to

found the

Calvinist

of Regeneration, necessity

of

for

roots

of the

real existence,

Revelation,

for

clear

and con-

sciousness.

Now my

not

induce

me

to

of regeneration, as that immediate act

detail

God, as life.

does

subject

in

by which

were, sets right again the crooked wheel of

it

But

speak

necessary that

it is

and

Revelation,

I

say a few words concerning

authority of the Holy Scriptures.

the

Very improperly, the Scriptures have been represented,

by Schweizer and others, as only the formal principle of the Reformed confession. The conception of genuine Calvinism lies much deeper. The meaning of Calvin was" expressed i.

e.

in

what he

called ihtnecessitas S. Scriptiirae ;

the need of Scriptural revelation.

S. S.

was

This necessitas

for Calvin the unavoidable expression for the

all-dominating authority of the Holy Scriptures, and even

now

it

stand,

is

this

why

the critical

it

very is

dogma which

enables us to under-

that the Calvinist of to-day considers

and the application of the

analysis

critical

solvent to the Scriptures as tantamount to an abandoning

of Christianity

was no

Bible,

itself./

In Paradise, before the Fall, there

and there

Paradise of glory.

will

When

by Nature, addresses

be no Bible

in the future

the transparent light, kindled

word of clearness, and

us directly, and the inner

God sounds in our heart in its original all human words are sincere, and the function of our inner ear is perfectly performed, why should we need a

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