Calvinism a life-system - pagina 92

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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God

ourselves, but just as the ordinance of

determines

the course of the smallest asteroid, as well as the orbit

of the mightiest star, so also these moral ordinances of

God descend

to the smallest

stating to us

what

in

every case

And

the will of God.

and most

particular details,

to be considered as

is

those ordinances of God, ruling

both the mightiest problems and the smallest urged upon like

codification of

upon us

itself,

— but

single

moment,

they are urged

the constant will of the Omnipresent and

as

life,

by His

like

which could even for a

life,

Almighty God, course of

are

read from paper, not like a

any authority of

exercise

us

may be

which

rules

trifles,

not like the statutes of a law-book, not

us,

Who

at every instant

ordaining

divine

laws,

its

determining the

and continually binding

The

authority.

is

Calvinist does not,

Kant, ascend in his reasoning from the "'Du Sollsf

(Thou

shalt)

the

to

idea

of a lawgiver, but, because

he stands before the face of God, because he sees God,

and walks with God, and

feels

God

whole of his

in the

being and existence, therefore he cannot withdraw his ear from that never silenced

"77/<??/ shalt",

which pro-

ceeds continually from his God, in nature, in his body, in his reason,

Thence

it

and

in his action.

follows that the true Calvinist adjusts himself

to these ordinances

a yoke

of

not by force, as though they were

which he would

like

to

with the same readiness with which

rid

we

himself,

but

follow a guide

through the desert, recognizing that we are ignorant of the path, which the guide knows, and therefore acknow-

ledging that there in his footsteps.

is

no safety but

When

in closely following

our respiration

is

disturbed,

we

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