Calvinism a life-system - pagina 58

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

54 of

the Triune

unto

Him

are

God;

of Him,

for

things.

all

And

Him, and

through

therefore our prayer

remains the deepest expression of all religious is

This

life.

the fundamental conception of religion as maintained

by Calvinism, and

hitherto,

higher conception.

For no higher conception can be

found.

no one has ever found a

The fundamental thought

of Calvinism, at the

same time the fundamental thought of the Christianity

leads, in the

itself,

own

of religion in our

and of

domain of religion

to the

Nor has

realization of the highest ideal.

ever

Bible,

century, in

its

the philosophy

mcfet daring flights,

attained a higher point of view nor a

more

ideal

conception.

The second it

must be

principal question in

all

religion

is

whether

Must there stand a church,

direct, or mediate.

a priest, or, as of old, a sorcerer, a dispenser of sacred

God and

mysteries, between

the soul, or shall

all inter-

vening links be cast away, so that the bond of religion shall bind the soul directly to in

all

non-Christian

human

intercessors

religions,

are

domain of Christianity

God.

Now we

find that

without any exception,

deemed necessary, and itself

the

intercessor

in the

intruded

again upon the scene, in the Blessed Virgin, in the host of angels, in the saints and martyrs, and in the priestly

hierarchy of the clergy

;

field against all priestly is

called

by

this

point

mediation, yet the church which

name, renewed by

his

doce)is" the office

On

and although Luther took the

its title

of ^^ecclesia

of mediator and steward of mysteries.

also

it

was Calvin, and he

alone,

who

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