Calvinism a life-system - pagina 85

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. one single

state,

And when

the

but the whole world

8 is

domain.

its

Lutheran Reformers

at the instigation

of their sovereigns, nationalized their

churches, and Cal-

churches allowed themselves to deviate into the

vinistic

same

track, they did not ascend to a higher conception

of Rome's

than that

but descended to

world-church,

Happily

distinctly lower ground.

bearing witness that both our

may

I

conclude by

Synod of Dordt, and your

not less venerable Westminster Assembly, have honoured again the ecumenical character of our Reformed Churches,

thereby censuring as unpardonable, every deviation from the only right principle.

Having thus

far given

an outline of the nature of the

Church, and the form of

draw your attention of

the

appearance on earth.

its

for the present

This

in

its

manifestation, last

present, I confine myself to

the Church

to

\\\t.

in its

At

purpose that has been

pilgrimage through the

prepare the believer for Heaven. in

State.

the next Lecture.

That purpose cannot be human or

world.

dying

say anything

on the separation of Church and

will naturally find place in

assigned

me now

place to the purpose

shall not

I

let

A

egoistic, to

regenerate child,

the cradle, goes straight to Heaven, without

any further preparation and wheresoever the Holy Ghost has

kindled

the spark

of Eternal

life

in the soul, the

perseverance of the saints assures the certainty of eternal salvation.

Nay, upon earth

merely for the sake of God. for

the

elect

man,

to

also,

the

Church

Regeneration

make him

sure

is

exists

sufficient

of his eternal

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