Calvinism a life-system - pagina 78

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

74

to the glory of Christ,

Church.

of the

and lowered the heavenly nature

Therefore,

Calvinism could

not rest

worldly tinsel had ceased to charm and attract

until this

Only when the

the eye.

of the sacerdotal

last grain

leaven had been eliminated, could the Church on earth

become the outer

again

from

court,

which believers

could look up and onward to the real sanctuary of the

God in heaven. The Westminster Confession

living

beautifully sets forth this

heavenly all-embracing nature of the Church, when says

:

— "The

Catholic

consists

invisible,

that have

or

shall

be,

thus

Him

invisible

consecrated and apprehended in

enduring significance.

a

is

the spouse, the

all in

all,"

Only

church religiously

its

cosmological, and

of course, the reality and

For,

time,

found, at most, one generation of believers at in

generations,

world,

elect

of the Church of Christ cannot exist on earth.

fulness

Here

is

that filleth

was the dogma of the

it is.

gathered into one,

under Christ the Head, thereof; and body, the fulness of

which

number of the

of the whole

are

been,

Universal Church,

or

had

Therefore,

the

portal

Temple;

of the

—

all

previous

from the beginning and foundation of the left

this

those

earth,

and had gone up on high.

who remained

here, were, eo ipso, pil-

grims, meaning thereby that they were marching from the

portal

salvation

unto the Sanctuary

after death

been united to Christ, during could be

left

to repentance

for

itself,

no

possibility of

who had not present life. No room

remaining for those this

masses for the dead, nor for a

on the other

side of the grave, as

Theologians are now advocating.

For

all

call

German

such proces-

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