Calvinism - pagina 78

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

74

to the glory of Christ,

Church.

of the

the

could

not rest

had ceased to charm and attract

tinsel

Only when the

eye.

Calvinism

Therefore,

worldly

until this

and lowered the heavenly nature

last grain

of the sacerdotal

leaven had been eliminated, could the Church on earth

again become

the

outer

from

court,

which believers

could look up and onward to the real sanctuary of the

God

living

in

heaven.

The Westminster Confession

beautifully sets forth this

heavenly all-embracing nature of the Church, when

says: — "The

Catholic

consists

invisible,

that have

or

shall

number of

be,

Him

consecrated

its

the spouse, the

is

in all."

all

Only

church religiously cosmological, and

of course, the reality and

For,

found, at most, one generation of believers at

is

time,

in

generations,

world,

in

elect

of the Church of Christ cannot exist on earth.

fulness

Here

invisible

and apprehended

enduring significance.

a

that filleth

was the dogma of the

thus

the

is

gathered into one,

under Christ the Head, thereof; and body, the fulness of

which

Church,

Universal

of the whole are

been,

or

it

had

the

portal

the

Temple;

—

all

previous

from the beginning and foundation of the left

this

those

Therefore,

of

earth,

and had gone up on high.

who remained

here, were, eo ipso, pil-

grimSy meaning thereby that they were marching from the

portal

salvation

unto the Sanctuary

after death

to'

be

left

for

no

remaining for those

been united to Christ, during could

itself,

this present

possibility of

who had not life. No room

masses for the dead, nor for a

repentance on the other side of the grave, as

Theologians are now advocating.

For

all

call

German

such proces-

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