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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

52 to

human and

subjective side;

that religion

by our

does not deny that religion has also

It

this.

all

is

its

does not dispute the fact

it

promoted, encouraged and strengthened

disposition

seek help

to

time of need and

in

spiritual elevation in the face of sensual passions; but

maintains

that

proper order of things

the

reverses

it

it

to seek, in these accidental motives, the essence and the

^ very purpose of these

which give

them

its

of

His creation

the sake of God.

created

For sion

all

full

God, of

not

— the

God who

exists

creation exists for

He

For, as the Scripture says,

the

God even impressed

has

on

the

excellent

"The Heavens

in all the earth."

— on

plants,

"The whole

children.

"How

of His glory."

God and

a religious expres-

whole of unconscious nature,

on animals and also is

It is ;

does

it

things for Himself.

this reason

on

religion,

produces also a blessing for man, but

the sake

of

religion, or as

Of course,

existence.

not exist for the sake of man. for

all

support, but he refuses to honour

it

as the reason of

such,

as

values

Calvinist

fnnts which are produced by

as

props

The

religion.

earth

Thy Name

is

declare the glory

firmament sheweth His handiwork."

"Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast ordained praise." Frost and hail, snow and vapour, the

God.

abyss

But

and the hurricane,

— everything

just as the entire creation reaches

ting point in man, so also religion finds

sion

only

and

this

does praise

in

not

man who because

Himself implanted religious expression,

in

is

made

man

in the

seeks

it,

its

its

culmina-

clear expres-

image of God,

but because

man's nature the

God

real essential

by means of the "seed of religion"

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