Calvinism a life-system - pagina 86

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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is not enough to satisfy the glory of work among men. For the glory of our God God it is necessary to have regeneration followed by conversion, and to this conversion the Church must contribute, by means of the preaching of the Word.

but

destiny,

it

in His

man glows

In the regenerate

man

converted that blaze

world,

the

radiates

that,

the spark, but only in the

does the spark burst into a blaze, and light

from the church into the

according

to

our Lord's commandment,

which

in

Heaven,

may be

glorified.

our

Father,

And

both our conversion and our sanc^ification

works are

only

is

marked by the

then

in

lofty character

which Jesus demands, when we make them serve,

own

place, not as the guarantee of our

first

Church must fan

this blaze,

in the

salvation,

In the second place,

but rather the glorifying of God, the

good

and make

it

brighten,

by the communion of the saints and by the Sacraments. Only when hundreds of candles are burning from one candelabrum, can the

and

strike us,

light

brightness of the soft candle-

full

in the

same way

nion of saints which has to unite the the

<of

believers

their

brightness,

increase

seven

midst

of

purify

the glow

the

brilliant fervour.

not

lie

in us,

From

this

restore

Hartman,

in

Thus

commu-

many small lights may mutually

Christ,

candlesticks,

of their

the

they

that

and

is

walking

may

brightness

in

the

sacramentally

to

a

still

more

the purpose of the Church does

but in God, and in the glory of His name.

solemn

way, the severely to

so

single

it

purpose

originates,

spiritual cultus

the services

in the

same

which Calvinism tried

of the Church.

Even Von

the far-from-Christian philosopher, perceived

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