Calvinism a life-system - pagina 91

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. SO

Who

of majesty,

full

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awaits hitn at his journey's

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

entrance into Eternity, stands the Last Judgment

judgment

that

\

and

be one broad and comprehensive

shall

to ascertain whether the long pilgrimage has been

test,

accomplished with a heart that aimed at God's glory, and accordance with the ordinances of the Most High,

in

What now

does

the ordinances

of

the Calvinist

God?

rooted conviction that of God, before all

created

existence,

it

life

Nothing

his faith in

than the firmly

less

been

in the

thoughts

to be realized in Creation.

Hence

all life

came

mean by

has

first

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 are called

ordinances

term which we are stand

laws of

thereby,

for the

earth below,

and,

as

servants

of

God

the

for

of Nature;

orginating

laws

So,

from

—

we under-

Nature, but

there are ordinances

firmament above, and ordinances

for the

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

of 'God,

through our

laws

willing to accept, provided

not

imposed upou Nature,

God

the

our

Consequently there bodies,

arteries,

organs of respiration.

and

for

the

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;

6f

and

our imagination, in the domain of aesthe-

for

so, also, strict

human

ordinances

life

in

in

ordinances of God for the whole

the domain of morals.

the sense of

summary

Not moral

general laws, which

leave the decision in concrete and detailed instances to

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