Calvinism a life-system - pagina 84

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

80 gregation that

This, however, its

te

might lead to the conception

of believers"

included the believers only, without their children.

it

by no means the teaching of Calvinism

is

quite the contrary.

Believers

;

baptism showing

ching on the subject of infant

who meet

together do not

thereby sever the natural bond that binds them to their

On

offspring.

the contrary, they consecrate this bond,

and by baptism incorporate

munion of

Church communion

this

themselves

confessors,

until,

dogma

of the

when

of age, they

sever themselves

or

church by their unbelief. vinistic

their children in the

com-

church, and these minors are kept in

their

This

is

become

from the

the all-important Cala prominent article

Covenant;

of our confession, showing that the waters of the Church

do

not flow outside the natural stream of cause

but

the

of the

life

human

life,

church to proceed hand

in

hand with the natural organic reproduction of mankind Covenant and Church are in its succeeding generations. inseparable, race,

— the

and God

between the

covenant

binding

Himself sealing of grace,

life

and the

come

course Church discipHne must

preserve

the

purity

of this

church to the

the

in

it

life

the connection of nature.

in here, in

Covenant

as

Of

order to

soon as the

intenpermeation of grace by nature tends to lower the purity view,

of the therefore,

Church. it

is

From

the Calvinistic point of

impossible to speak of a national

Church, as being destined to embrace

A

of a whole country.

all

national Church,

the inhabitants i.e.,

a church

comprising only one nation, and that nation entirely, is

a

Heathen,

or

Church of Christ

at most, a Jewish conception. is

not national but ecumenical.

The Not

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