Calvinism a life-system - pagina 22

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

l8

med and

is

God from

was possessed

Islam

was

and

tendency,

life.

thought:

same

tiara,

the case

is

the hierarchy,

are but the outcome of one fundamental

etc., viz.,

God

that

enters into fellowship with the

creature by means of a mystic middle-link, which

Church

;

— not

taken

a

as

stands

hetiveen

God

also

And

form of

own

its

inspire

for

it,

human

far as

its

equally

is

it

Romanism society.

now, by the side of and opposite to these

Calvinism takes

which

Here the Church and so

and the world,

was able to adopt the world and to created a

the

is

mystic organism, but as a

palpable and tangible institution.

visible,

anti-

to originate an entirely

— The

with Romanism. Here also the papal the mass,

As

of an equally far-reaching

able

also

world of human

peculiar

the creature, in order

commingling with the creature.

all

its

the only absolute antithesis to

Islam isolates

avoid

pode,

are the historic names, but in

Crescent

Paganism. to

Koran

the

nature the

Moham-

between the creature and God.

off all contact

three,

stand with a fundamental thought

profound.

does not seek

It it

the creature, as Islamism

posits

;

it

God

in

does not isolate Godi from

the creature, as Paganism;

no mediate commnnion

between God and the creature, as does Romanism; but proclaims the exalted thought that, although standing in

high

majesty

above the creature, God enters

into

God

the

immediate felloivship with

Holy

Spirit.

Calvinistic

This

is

the

of peace

as

even the heart and kernel of the

confession of predestination.

munion with God, but only counsel

creature,

from

in entire

all eternity.

There

is

com-

accord with his

Thus

there

is

no

grace but such as comes to us immediately from God.

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