Calvinism - pagina 93

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

immediately to remove the disturb-

try irresistibly and

make

and to

ance,

by bringing

it

nances which

God

suceed

normal again,

it

again

i.e.^

accordance

into

to restore

it,

with the ordi-

To

has given for man's respiration.

this gives us a feeling of

in

89

unspeakable

relief.

Just so, in every disturbance of the moral

life

the believer

has

to

restore

to

speedily

as

strive

possible

as

respiration, according to the

spiritual

his

moral commands

of his God, because only after this restoration can the

inward

life

again thrive freely in his soul, and renewed

become

energetic action

between

tinction

unknown one time God willed

commandments

Can we imagine

that

dis-

moral ordinances, and more

general

christian

special

Therefore every

possible.

at

is

to him.

to rule

things in a certain moral order, but that now, in Christ,

He

rule

to

wills

As though He were Unchangeable, Who, from the very otherv/ise.?

it

not the Eternal, the

hour

of creation

and

shall

even unto

and

will

moral world-order

eternity

all

had

willed, wills,

one and the same firm

maintain

Verily Christ has swept

!

away the

dust with wich man's sinful hmitations had covered up this

and has made

world- order,

original

brilliancy.

disclosed

to

us

Verily

the

it

Christ

glitter

again in

and He alone has

love of God, which was,

eternal

from the beginning, the moving principle of order.

Above

ability to

step.

walk

all,

in this

this

world-

strengthened in us the

has

Christ

its

world-order with a firm, unfaltering

But the w^orld-order

was from the beginning.

It

itself

lays

remains just what

full

it

claim, not only to

the believer (as though less were required from the unbeliever),

but to every

human

being and to

all

human

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