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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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man

therefore,

and although

stands as the prophet, priest and king,

high designs, yet

sin has disturbed these

God pushes them onward. He so loves His world that He has given Himself to it, in the person of His Son, and thus He has again brought our race, and through our

with eternal the

off

fell

whole Cosmos, into a renewed contact

His

race.

itself shall

To

life.

many branches and leaves human race, yet the tree

be sure,

of the

tree

be saved; on

new

its

root in Christ,

once more blossom gloriously.

it

shall

For regeneration does

not save a few isolated individuals, finally to be joined

saves

ration

therefore

all

the

organism,

bound together by

But

of our race.

itself,

human

regenerate

body, of which Christ are

Regene-

mechanically as an aggregate heap.

together

life,

forms one organic

the Head, and

is

their mystical

whose members

union with Him.

not before the second Advent, shall this

embracing organism manifest cosmos.

At

present

only as

it

In

Future,

the

God,

w^ere

therefore

is

itself as

new

the centre of the

Here, on earth

hidden.

all-

it is

silhouette that can be dimly discerned.

tJiis

nezv Jerusalem shall descend from

out of heaven,

beams from our

And

its

it

And

but

at

present

it

withdraws

its

sight in the mysteries of the invisible.

the

sanctuary

true

is

now

above.

On

high are both the Altar of Atonement, and the incense-

and

on high

Altar

of Prayer;

priest'

who, according to Melchizedek's ordinance, mi-

is

Christ, as the only

nisters at the Altar, in the sanctuary, before

God.

Now, in the middle ages, the Church had more and more lost sight of this celestial character; she had become worldly in her nature. The Sanctuary was again

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