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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

relationships.

Hence Calvinism does not

sophize on a so-called moral to

simply

places

and

us

subjects

Calvinist, all ethical

though

as

began to be

study

Hence

fixed,

but

its

moral

the

summary

God wrote in and which God is

is

that, for the

Law

of Sinai,

world- order

honour the Law of

to

law which

it

based on the

is

time

that

at

every heart at

Calvinism

life.

His eternal ordinances and

to

as the divinely authentic

creation,

had to

n^e

under the impress of the majesty of

us

unchangeable commandments.

not

though

discover, or to regulate this

create,

God,

as

life,

lead us to philo-

of that original moral

heart

the

Sinai,

of

man,

at

his

re-writing on the tables of

The

conversion.

Calvinist

is

led to

submit himself to the conscience, not as to an individual

which every person

lawgiver,

but as to a direct

Himself

senstis divhiitatis,

through which God

up the inner man, and subjects him

stirs

judgment.

carries about in himself,

He

does not hold to religion, with

as a separate entltyy

his

dogmatics,

moral

life

with

second entity alongside of religion, but

a

as

and then place

its

to His

its

ethics

he

holds to religion, as placing him in the presence of

God

of every

motives

fear of

into

God

is

spiritual

Calvin, themselves

and thus the

activity,

imparted to the whole of hfe as a

life,

med man who is

and

into the political career.

in all things

controlled

solely

reality,

his

consciousness, and

and

A redee-

in all the choices

of

by the most searching, and

heart-stirring reverence for a

to

to

are,

the family, and into society, into science and art,

into personal

life

thereby embues him with His divine

Love and adoration

will.

the

Who

Himself,

God Who

Who

is

ever present

ever holds him in His

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