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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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thorough-going religion on behalf of laymen that

in his

dogmatics he lauds the church as the mystical Purveyor,

whose bosom God caused all grace to flow and from whose treasure all men had to accept it. Only he,

into

who

therefore,

confines

superficially

attention

his

to

predestination can confuse Augustinianism and Calvinism.

man

Religion for the sake of that

man

carries with

it

the position

has to act as a mediator for his fellow-man.

God inexorably excludes every As long as it remains the chief help man, and as long as man is

Religion for the sake of

\human mediatorship. purpose of religion to

understood to deserve grace by his devotion, natural

man

the

that

Another must procure

for

him what he cannot procure

on

the

man has

to pluck

to his helpless comrade.

If,

The

it,

and hand

on the contrary, the

human

that every

is

for himself.

fruit

hangs too high, and, therefore, the

branches

of religion

perfectly

of inferior-piety should invoke

the mediation of the holier man.

higher-reaching

it is

down demand it

heart must give glory to

God, no man can appear before God on behalf of another.

Then every for

human

single

and

himself,

religion

general priesthood

of

being must appear personally, achieves

believers.

its

aim only

in the

Even the new-born

babe must have received the seed of religion from Himself;

and

must not be elected,

enter,

dies without bein^ baptized,

it

off to a linilnis innoccntiiim, but,

if

in case

sent

even

it

as

the

long-lived,

communion with God, for all eternity. The importance of this second point, of

religion,

culminating,

of personal election,

God

is

as

it

into

personal

in the

question

does, in the confession

incalculable.

On

the one hand,

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