Calvinism - pagina 221

CALVINISM AND ART.

you

then this

gift

the

is

the

exclusively

is

and must bear an it

enjoyment of

limit the higher

21/

art to regeneration,

portion

of believers, In that case

ecclesiastical character.

outcome of particular grace.

hand of experience and

history,

But

if,

at the

you become persuaded and hence

that the highest art-instincts are natural

gifts,

belong to those excellent graces which,

in spite of sin,

by

common

virtue of

human

nature,

grace, have continued to shine in

plainly

it

follows

that art can inspire

both believers and unbelievers, and that Sovereign to impart

Heathen and only to life,

is

between

all

Israel

the natural utterances of

and the other

things are concerned, Israel blessed above In

isolated.

only

a

and

all

all

the

Romans,

are

other

bent

He

of Israel

in

ding

all

Israel

not only nations,

has not

even the Greeks and the

beneath

the

yoke of falsehood.

alone.

Salvation

is

of the Jews.

But

proportion as Israel shines forth from within

compare

politics,

is

among

of Religion,

nations,

the domain of Religion, so

you

chosen, and

holy

not partly of Israel and partly of the nations;

is

just

far as

but Israel alone has the truth,

share,

Christ is

is

human

in early times

As

nations.

nations, but stands

the question

larger

This apphes not

nations.

by the comparison

illustrated

remains

His good pleasure, alike to

in

Christian

but to

art,

and

to

it,

God

the

is

The

equally backward

development

commerce and trade

nations.

it

building

to

of

its

that

of the

art,

when

science,

of the surroun-

Temple required

Hiram from a heathen country to Jerusalem; and Solomon, in whom, after all, was found the Wisdom of God, not only knows that Israel stands the

coming

of

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