Calvinism - pagina 161

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. even

but

this

mediatorship

glory of the Father

God and

to

with

may

prayer

us

for

be,

the Father.

but

Father,

the

will at last

the hour

cease,

will

He He

our Advocate

still

is

coming, when His

we

because

an end once and

puts

surrender

is

shall

know,

in

Thereby of course

that day, that the Father loves us.

Calvinism

end the

final

its

5/

and however grand the splendour

;

of Christ's kingdom it

has for

1

for all to

contempt

the world, neglect of temporal and under-valuation

for

Cosmical

of cosmical things.

not

at

life

has regained

the expense of things eternal, but

by

its

worth

virtue of

capacity as God's handiwork and as a revelation of

its

God's attributes.

Two

facts

suffice to

During the

of this.

ated

may

Milan,

impres you with the truth

terrible plague,

Cardinal

Borromeo's

which once devastheroic

love

shone

brightly in the courage he manifested in his ministrations to the dying; but during the plague, which in the i6th

century

more

tormented

wisely, for

spiritual

Geneva,

Calvin

acted

better

and

he not only cared incessantly for the

needs of the sick, but at the same time intro-

duced hitherto unsurpassed hygienic measures, whereby the fact,

ravages to

which

Amsterdam unrivalled

I

The

markable.

The second

of the plague were arrested.

draw your Calvinistic

was

an

attention,

is

not

less re-

preacher Peter Plancius of

enloquent

sermonizer,

in his consecration to his

a

pastor

work, foremost in

the ecclesiastical struggle of his days, but at the same

time he was the oracle of shipowners and sea-captains

on account of

The

his

extensive

geographical

investigation of the lines of longitude

knowledge.

and

latitude

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