Calvinism a life-system - pagina 160

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

156

Christ himself does not

their original head,

Christ

as

speak

only

of the regeneration

of the earth, but also

of a regeneration of the cosmos (Matth. 19 declares

"The whole

:

bursting

forth

glory of the children of God."

And when John on Patmos Cherubim and the Redeemed, the

Paul

28).

creation groaneth waiting for the

of the

were given to God,

:

"Who

listened to the all

hymns

of the

honour, praise and thanks

has created the heaven and

earthy The Apocalypse returns to the startingpoint

of Gen.

I,

"In the beginning God created the

I.:

heaven and the earths

In keeping with

this,

the final

outcome of the future, foreshadowed in the H. Scriptures, is

not the merely spiritual existence of saved souls, but

all

in

earth.

of

of the entire cosmos, when God will be under the renewed heaven on the renewed

restoration

the

all

Now

this wide,

comprehensive, cosmical meaning

the gospel has been apprehended again

apprehended not as a

of the deep impression

moulded

his personal

it

of God's

is

which had

of substantial weight, but

Who

His wondrous creation.

is

true

for

restoration,

vation

a

still

more

yet restoration

of that which was

has revealed His majesty

This creation

work, and being marred by it

majesty,

cannot be compared with the much greater weight

of the glory of our God, in

Calvin,

life.

our salvation

Certainly

by

result of a dialectic process, but

sin,

the

glorious

is

first

hymn

is

and ever

will

of the tongues of

His handi-

revelation

and ever

will

in

be the

its

sal-

created, the theodicy of

the original handiwork of our God.

of Christ

is

way was opened,

The mediatorship

be the burden of the grand

men and

the voices of angels,

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