Calvinism - pagina 67

— CALVINISM AND RELIGION. maintain

demands

its

God's ordinances labora

may

do,

may he

employed

Calvinist

some

whatever

in industry,

or his mind,

he

confine

to

religion

among men. human race. This

creation.

is,

in

whatsoever

imbued with the

race

he has to aim at the is

it

impossible for a

a single group, or to

is

the product of God's

is

He

for

who have become also those who still God create all men,

but

all

men, but His grace also

not only as a special grace, to the

itself,

as

all

as well as young,

only those

For not only did

off.

only

— not

— old

His mysteries,

into

stand afar

a

mankind.

religious

strictly

Religion concerns the whole

God,

fear of

low as well as high,

also

God,

Therefore the whole of mankind must be

possession.

extends

to

God, he has

elect,

common grace (gratia communis), To be sure there is a concentration

light

and

life

in the

Church, but then

through these spacious windows the

is

all

hill,

of

and

light of the Eternal

has to radiate over the whole world.

upon a

to

in the

walls of this church, there are wide open windows,

set

it

His wonderful workmanship. His absolute

It is

initiated

all,

— Consequently,

circles

of our

all

stand,

his hand, in

science,

God, and above

his

and

in fervent

apply

in the service of his

glory of his God.

but

and

art,

and that every

ora

its

may

whatever he

commerce, and

world of

obey

not

be observed,

shall

be, constantly standing before the face of his

is

to

shall be praised, that

Wherever man may

to

agriculture, in in the

God

be permeated with

shall

ceaseless prayer.

he

that

63

Here

which every man can see

is

afar of.

a city,

Here

a holy salt that penetrates in every direction, checking corruption.

And

even he

who

does not yet imbibe

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