Calvinism - pagina 91

—a CALVINISM AND RELIGION. SO

Who

of majesty,

full

awaits

him

87

at his journey's

end. In front of the Portal which opens for him, on the

entrance into Eternity, stands the Last Judgment; and that

judgment

test,

to ascertain whether the long pilgrimage has been

be one broad and comprehensive

shall

accomplished with a heart that aimed at God's glory, and in

accordance with the ordinances of the Most High.

What now

does

the ordinances

of

the Calvinist

God?

rooted conviction that of God, before all

created

existence,

life

it

Nothing

all life

came

has

mean by

than the firmly

less

been

first

his faith in

in

the thoughts

to be realized in Creation.

Hence

necessarily bears in itself a law for

by God Himself.

instituted

There

is

no

its

life

outside us in Nature, without such divine ordinances,

which

ordinances

are

called

the

laws

of Nature;

—

term which we are willing to accept, provided we understand laws of

thereby,

not

laws

orginating

imposed upon Nature.

God

for the

So,

from Nature, but

there are ordinances

firmament above, and ordinances for the

by means of which this world is maintained, the Psalmist says. These ordinances are the

earth below,

and,

as

servants

of

God

of God. lor

through our

our

Consequently there bodies,

arteries,

organs of respiration.

and

the

for

veins,

And

are ordinances

blood that

and

for

courses

our lungs as the

even so are there ordinances

of God, in Logic, to regulate our thoughts; ordinances

of

God

tics;

of

and

our imagination,

for so,

human

ordinances

also,

life

in

in the

strict

in the

domain of

aesthe-

ordinances of God for the whole

the domain sense of

of morals.

summary

Not moral

general laws, which

leave the decision in concrete and detailed instances to

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