Calvinism a life-system - pagina 73

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. immediate testimony of the Holy moniuin

Spirit,

Our theory

Sancti.

spiritus

69

— on

the

testi-

of inspiration

the product of historical deduction, and so

is

is

also every

But the magnetic

canonical declaration of the Scriptures.

power with which the Scripture influences the soul, and draws it to itself, just as the magnet draws the steel, is

not derived, but immediate.

in

a

manner, which

mystical, but clear,

regenerates us,

lamp

the

not magical, nor unfathomably

is

to say he rekindles in our heart

is

had blown

sin

God

and easy to be understood.

— that

of this regeneration

All of this takes place

is

out.

The necessary consequence

an irreconcilable

conflict

between

the inner world of our heart and the world outside, and conflict

this

regenerative principle in

the

God

Bible,

more

more the pervades our consiousness. Now,

ever the

is

intensified the

reveals, to the regenerate, a

world

of thought, a world of energies, a world of full and beautiful life,

world,

which stands

with the new the

life

opposition to his ordinary

in

revealed to

that has sprung

in

up

a wonderful

way

his heart.

So

in

begins to guess the identity of what

regenerate

stirring

in direct

but which proves to agree

is

the depth of his

own

him

thereby learning both the

in Scripture,

soul,

and of what

is

inanity of the world around him, and the divine reality

of the world of the Scriptures, and as soon as this has

become

a certainty to him, he has

the testimony of the Holy Spirit.

him

thirsted

for the

Father of

personally received

Everything that all

is

in

Lights and Spirits.

Outside the Scripture, he discovered only vague shadows.

But now as he looks upward, through the prism of the Scriptures, he

rediscovers his Father and his God.

— For

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