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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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God

ourselves, but just as the ordinance of

determines

the course of the smallest asteroid, as well as the orbit

of the mightiest star, so also these moral ordinances of

God descend

to the smallest

stating to us

what

every case

in

And

the will of God.

and most

particular details,

to be considered as

is

those ordinances of God, ruling

both the mightiest problems and the smallest urged upon like

us,

codification of

exercise

upon us

like

like

a

which could even for a single moment, itself,

— but

they are urged

the constant will of the Omnipresent and

as

life,

Who

at every instant

ordaining

divine

shalt)

his

the

to

its

laws,

is

determining the

and continually binding

The

authority.

Kant, ascend in

(Thou

be read from paper, not

any authority of

by His

us

may

life,

Almighty God, course of

are

not like the statutes of a law-book, not

which

rules

trifles,

Calvinist does not,

reasoning from the

idea

'^

Dit Soils

f

of a lawgiver, but, because

he stands before the face of God, because he sees God,

and walks with God, and feels God in the whole of his being and existence, therefore he cannot withdraw his I

ear from that never silenced

'•''TJwil

shalf\ which pro-

cceds continually from his God, in nature, in his body, I

in his reason,

Thence

it

and

in his action.

follows that the true Calvinist adjusts himself

to these ordinances

a

not by force, as though they were

yoke of which he would

like

to

with the same readiness with which

through the desert, recognizing that

rid

we we

himself,

but

follow a guide

are ignorant of

the path, which the guide knows, and therefore acknow-

ledging that there in his footsteps.

is

no safety but

When

in closely following

our respiration

is

disturbed,

we

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