Calvinism - pagina 84

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

80 gregation that

of

te

to the conception

lead

included the believers only, without their children.

it

This, however, its

might

believers"

by no means the teaching of Calvinism

is

baptism showing

ching on the subject of infant

quite the contrary.

who meet

Believers

;

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 themselves

confessors,

until,

dogma

This

is

cause

the

become

from

the

the all-important Cal-

a prominent article

Covenant;

flow outside the natural stream of

not

but

of age, they

showing that the waters of the Church

of our confession,

do

the

of

when

or sever themselves

church by their unbelief. vinistic

com-

church, and these minors are kept in

their

Church communion

this

their children in the

of the

life

human

life,

church to proceed hand

in

hand with the natural organic reproduction of mankind in its

inseparable, race,

Covenant and Church are

succeeding generations.

and

— the

covenant

God Himself

between the

sealing

of grace,

life

binding

come

course Church discipline must

preserve

the

purity

in

and the

of this

church to the

the 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, is

a Jewish conception.

not national but ecumenical.

The Not

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