Calvinism - pagina 90

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

S6 stone

pillars,

formulae, but without a

echoing Calvin's

grain of Calvinistic earnestness in their heart. the

is

real

who

banner,

his

in

may

and

Calvinist,

own

soul,

the

raise

personally,

He

only

Calvinistic

has been

by the Majesty of the Almighty, and yielding

struck

to

the overpowering might of his eternal Love, has dared

proclaim this majestic love, over against Satan, and

to

own heart, in the being chosen by God Himself,,

the world, and the worldliness of his

personal

of

conviction

and therefore of having for

to

thank

every grace everlasting.

Him and Him

alone,

Such an one could not but

tremble before the might and the majesty of God, as a

principle of His conduct in led so far that for

His

accepting

of course

matter

its

life;

Word

—a

as

the ruling

principle which has

strong attachment to the Scriptures,

Calvinism has been censured, as being a 7iomistic religion,

but without any warrant.

name

a

for

attained

religion

by the

Nomistic

is

the appropriate

which proclaims salvation

to

be

fulfilment of the law, while Calvinism,

on the other hand,

in a

thoroughly soteriological sense,

never derived salvation but from Christ and the atoning fruit

of His merits.

But

it

remained the special

trait

of Calvinism that

it

placed the believer before the face of God, not only in in his

personal, family, social, and

The majesty

of God, and the authority

His church, but also political

life.

God press upon the Calvinist human existence. He is a pilgrim,

of

he

is

in

the whole of his

not in the sense that

marching through a world with which he has no

concern, but in the sense that at every step of the long

way he must remember

his responsibility to that

God

Deze tekst is geautomatiseerd gemaakt en kan nog fouten bevatten. Digibron werkt voortdurend aan correctie. Klik voor het origineel door naar de pdf. Voor opmerkingen, vragen, informatie: contact.

Op Digibron -en alle daarin opgenomen content- is het databankrecht van toepassing. Gebruiksvoorwaarden. Data protection law applies to Digibron and the content of this database. Terms of use.

Printen