Calvinism a life-system - pagina 221

CALVINISM AND ART.

you

gift

the

is

the

exclusively

is

and must bear an it

enjoyment of

limit the higher

then this

21/

art to regeneration,

portion

of believers, In that case

ecclesiastical character.

outcome of particular grace.

hand of experience and

But

if,

at the

you become persuaded

history,

and hence

that the highest art-instincts are natural

gifts,

belong to those excellent graces which,

in spite of sin,

by

common

virtue of

human

nature,

grace, have continued to shine in

plainly

it

follows

that art can inspire

both believers and unbelievers, and that Sovereign to impart

it,

Heathen and to Christian only to life,

but to

art,

and

is

between

all

illustrated

blessed above

In

only

a

and

all

all

the natural utterances of

the

Romans,

are

bent

is

of Israel

just

in

among

all

Israel

holy

not only nations,

has not

beneath

alone.

the

yoke of falsehood.

and partly of the nations;

Salvation

is

of the Jews.

But

proportion as Israel shines forth from within

compare

politics,

far as is

even the Greeks and the

nations,

the domain of Religion, so

you

As

chosen, and

of Religion,

notf partly of Israel

Christ

nations.

human

in early times

but Israel alone has the truth,

share,

other

He

is

is

nations, but stands

the question

larger

This applies not

by the comparison

things are concerned, Israel

isolated.

God remains

pleasure, alike to

nations.

and the other

Israel

good

in His

the

is

it

equally backward

development

commerce and trade

to

of that

its

art,

when

science,

of the surroun-

The building of the Temple required the coming of Hiram from a heathen country to Jerusalem; and Solomon, in whom, after all, was found the Wisdom of God, not only knows that Israel stands ding

nations.

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