Calvinism a life-system - pagina 66

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

62

A

religion confined to feeling or will

able

the

to

priest

of creation

to the

hem

all

his

light

irradiate

world of of his

but

and

in the

for the

him,

his

— the

and

self," in

his

axiomatic strongholds for practical

the

very

thought; to have

study

the

to

underground

outworks of the exertion

inner

his

in

for

starting-points

fixed

God

possess his

not

in

is

comes from God Himself

which

To

which

hoyoq

of his consciousness,

centre

beard and

his

and how then could he exclude

his feelings,

will,

the

of

and powers, must be pervaded by the

of thought ?

anointing

His whole being, including

consciousness, — the

him

therefore unthink-

must reach down to

divinitatis,

rational

is

sacred

of his garment.

abilities

sejisus

The

Calvinist.

of

and

nature

but to have no

life,

fixed support in his thoughts about the Creator Himself, all

for the Calvinist, the

was,

of this

very denying of

the Eternal Logos.

The same

character

the Calvinist of influence was, in

its

geable law

for

of universality was claimed of religion and

the sphere

demands

the Calvinist

that

service, in strict obedience, closet, the cell,

God

is

A

be consecrated to His

religion confined to the

upon heaven and

is

earth,

he

peoples and nations to give glory to God.

present

life

therefore

or the church, therefore, Calvin abhors.

Psalmist, he calls all

all life

all life,

in

all

with

life,

the influence of His

omnipresent and almighty power, and

human

circle

among men. Everything that has been created creation, furnished by God with an unchanAnd because God has fully of its existence.

ordained such laws and ordinances for

With the calls upon

its

by

conceivable

in

wich

no sphere of

religion

does not

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