Calvinism - pagina 73

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. immediate testimony of the Hoiy

monium

spiritus

69

Spirit,

— on

Our theory of

Sancti.

the product of historical deduction, and so canonical declaration of the Scriptures.

power with which the Scripture draws

it

to

itself,

just as the

is

not derived, but immediate.

in

a manner,

which

mystical, but clear,

regenerates us,

and easy is

is

inspiration is

is

also every

But the magnetic

influences the soul,

magnet draws the

and

steel,

All of this takes place

God

be understood.

to

to say he rekindles in our heart

the lamp sin had blown out. of this regeneration

testi-

not magical, nor unfathomably

is

— that

the

The necessary consequence

an irreconcilable conflict between

the inner world of our heart and the world outside, and conflict

this

is

regenerative principle in

the

God

Bible,

more the pervades our consiousness. Now,

ever the

more

intensified the

world

reveals, to the regenerate, a

of thought, a world of energies, a world of full and beautiful life,

world,

which stands

in direct opposition to his

but which proves to agree

with the new

life

the regenerate stirring

in

that has sprung

ordinary

in

a wonderful

up

in his heart.

way So

begins to guess the identity of what

the depth of his

own

soul,

and of what

is

is

revealed to him in Scripture, thereby learning both the inanity of the world around him,

and the divine

reality

of the world of the Scriptures, and as soon as this has

become

a certainty to him, he has

the testimony of the Holy Spirit.

him

thirsted

for the

Father of

personally received

Everything that all

is

in

Lights and Spirits.

Outside the Scripture, he discovered only vague shadows.

But now

as he looks

Scriptures, he

upward, through the prism of the

rediscovers his Father and his God.

— For

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