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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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The poor

sisters.

and the is

who thanks theDeacort actually denies Him Who

church- member,

giver, but not Christ,

the real and divine Giver, and

purposes to make

and

through

his deacons,

manifest that for the whole man^

it

whole of

for the

Who

He

life

the Christiis Consolatory

is

the Heavenly Redeemer, anointed and appointed

by God

Himself, for our fallen race, from

And

all

eternity.

so,

you

see,

the result proves incontestably that in Cal-

vinism,

the

fundamental conception of the Church

as

perfectly to the fundamental idea oi Religion.

fits

All egoism

and eudaemonism are excluded from both, even unto the

Always and ever we have

end.

The

Church

origin of the

festation

is

in

CJnirch,

the sake of man.

for

God,

its

form of mani-

life,

to

the fruit of religion in our

or the position taken

— the

third

and

by Calvinism

in

the

last division, with

on Calvinism and Religion

this lecture

its

magnify God's glory.

to

come

I

of morals

question

which

and remains

finally,

practical

is

and a

from God, and from beginning to end,

is

purpose

Now

and not

sake of God,

the

for

a Religion,

will natu-

rally conclude.

Here, the

first

thing that attracts our attention

apparent contradiction

is

the

between a confession, which,

it

blunts

the edge of moral incentives, and a

practice, which, in

moral earnestness exceeds the practice

is

of

alleged,

all

other religions.

seemed

to be

so that at

were the

mingled

first

sight

it

The Antinomian and

the Puritan

in this field like tares

and wheat,

seemed as though the Antinomian

logical result of the Calvinistic confession,

and

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