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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

relationships.

Hence Calvinism does not

sophize on a so-called moral to

simply

places

and subjects

us

Calvinist, all ethical

though

as

began to be

ive

had

to

Calvinism

life.

under the impress of the majesty of

us

His eternal ordinances and

to

unchangeable commandments.

not

lead us to philo-

though

discover, or to regulate this

create,

God,

as

life,

study

fixed,

but

is

moral

the

honour the

to

as the divinely authentic

it

based on the

is

time

that

at

Hence

summary

that, for the

Law

of Sinai,

world-order

Law

of Sinai,

of that original moral

God wrote in the heart ofi man, at his creation, and which God is re-writing on the tables of every heart at its conversion. The Calvinist is led to

law which

submit himself to the conscience, not as to an individual lawgiver,

which every person

carries about in himself,

but as to a direct sensus divinitatis, through which

Himself

judgment.

God

up the inner man, and subjects him to His

stirs

He

does not hold to religion, with

as a separate entity,

and then place

his

its

dogmatics^

moral

life

with

second entity alongside of religion, but

a

its

ethics

he

holds to religion, as placing him in the presence of

God

as

motives

fear of

into

God

of ^.v^xy is

Calvin, themselves

and thus the

activity,

imparted to the whole of Hfe as a

life,

med man who is

and

into the political career.

in all things

controlled

solely

his

consciousness, and

and

reality,

God Who

Who

art,

A redee-

in all the choices of

by the most

heart-stirring reverence for a

to

to

are,

spiritual

the family, and into society, into science and

into personal

life

thereby embues him with His divine

Love and adoration

will.

the

Who

Himself,

searching, is

and

ever present

ever holds him in His

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