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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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Christ himself docs not

their original head.

Christ

as

speak

only

of the regeneration

of the earth, but also

of a regeneration of the cosmos (Matth. 19:28). declares

"The whole

:

bursting

forth

Paul

creation groaneth waiting for the of the children of God."

of the glory

And when John on Patmos

listened to the

Cherubim and the Redeemed,

all

hymns

of the

honour, praise and thanks

were given to God, "-^Who has created the heaven and

The Apocalypse

the eartJiT

of Gen.

I,

I.:

is

all

in

earth.

all

Now

this wide,

comprehensive, cosmical meaning

moulded

his personal

of God's

Calvin,

majesty,

which had

life.

our salvation

Certainly

by

as a result of a dialectic process, but

of the deep impression

is

of substantial weight, but

cannot be compared with the much greater weight

of the glory of our God,

Who

His wondrous creation.

work, it

the final

H. Scriptures,

the gospel has been apprehended again

apprehended not

in

this,

of the entire cosmos, when God will be under the renewed heaven on the renewed

restoration

it

in the

created the

not the merely spiritual existence of saved souls, but

the

of

foreshadowed

future,

God

In keeping with

heaven and the earthy

outcome of the

beginning

the

*''In

returns to the startingpoint

is

for

restoration,

vation

This creation

and being marred by true

a

still

more

yet restoration

has revealed His majesty

is

sin,

the

glorious

is

His handi-

way was opened, revelation

and ever

will

in

be the

its

sal-

of that which was fust created, the theodicy of

the original handiwork of our God.

of Christ

is

and ever

will

The mediatorship

be the burden of the grand

h)'mn of the tongues of men and the voices of angels,

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