Calvinism - pagina 276

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CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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our

subject

are

ourselves

our entire personality

in

it

our very nature, our position

existence,

entire

to

being entirely dependent on

life

the

predestination,

man,

of

and

Calvinist

This all-embracing-

it.

not

places,

in the

less

still

in

the hand

in

hand of a blind natural

hand of Almighty God, Sovereign Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth and it is

force,

but

the

in

;

the potter and the clay that Scripture

in the figure of

of the Prophets expounded to us

has

from

this

all-dominating election.

time

the

and so election

tion in providence, election

in

the realm of grace as well as in the realm

of

doctrine

believing

we

has

Election

century upon century,

peace and reconciliation to the hearts of the

restored

as

these two systems

and Election, does not history show that

Selection

the

also to eternal life;

Now, when we compare

of nature.

of

Election in creation, elec-

and that

sufferer;

all

Christians hold election

ho'C^m creation 2,xi^m providence

do, in honour,

\

and that Calvinism deviates from the other Christian confessions

this

in

respect

only, that, grasping unity

and placing the glory of God above to extend the to the

hope

This

amounts for

then to.

irony or

abandon

his

mystery of Election

for the is

Or jest,

what

lest

Calvinistic

to spiritual

Do

conflict,

my

Christian

against

dares

life,

and

for the times are too serious

at I

least

know

who cannot

faith,

in

yet

put this all-important of another solution of

fundamental world-problem emabling

defend

it

dogmatic narrowness

every Christian,

objections,

thing,

to come.

rather,

question to himself: this

life

all

this

me

better to

hour of sharpest

renewed Paganism collecting

its

forces

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