Calvinism - pagina 79

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. and gradual

sional,

were regarded by Calvin

transitions,

as destroying the absolute contrast

of 'the Church in Heaven, and

on

The church on

earth.

its

light

as

it

down

earth does not send

Church on

to the

on earth

first,

is

There

earth.

all

a mystical

Church, by means of the

real

2ip

its

now,

is

from penetrating while on earth, into the

it

essence of the Church. Therefore, to us

imperfect form, here

its

a curtain stretched, before the eye, which

were,

hinders

between the essence

but the Church in heaven must send

heaven,

to

light

75

real

that remains possible

communion with

Spirit,

and

in the

that

second

place the enjoyment of the shadows which are displaying

themselves on the transparent curtain before

Accor-

us.

dingly,

no child of God should imagine that the

Church

is

there

only an ideal product of our imagination

is

on

here

and that behind the curtain

earth,

on the contrary, he has

real

to confess that Christ in

;

but,

human

form, in our flesh, has entered into the invisible, behind the

curtain

;

and

Him, our Head,

that, is

with Him, around Him, and in

the real church, the real and essential

sanctuary of our salvation.

After having thus clearly grasped the nature of the

Church,

in

its

bearing upon

our

human

race and of the

now

turn

our attention to

here on earth. local

living

As

congregations in

some

such

of

it

the

re-creation

Cosmos its

as a whole, let us

form of

manifestation^

displays, unto us,

believers^

different

groups of confessors,

ecclesiastical union, in

ordinances of Christ Himself

both of

obedience to the

The Church on

earth

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