Calvinism - pagina 66

— CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

62

/

A

religion confined to feeling or will

able

the

to

of

to the

hem

sensus

of thought

but

centre

of his

not

God

in the

him,

— the

underground the

very

thought; to have

his

axiomatic strongholds for practical

in

self,

study

the

in

outworks of the exertion

and

consciousness, for

for the

inner

his

in

is

his

from God Himself to

comes

and

starting-points

fixed

and

which

hoyo;

possess his

his feelings,

will,

to his beard

His whole being, including

— the

which

To

irradiate hiin?

of his

the

and how then could he exclude

divinitatis,

world of

of

and powers, must be pervaded by the

rational consciousness, light

anointing

sacred

of his garment.

abilities

his

all

therefore unthink-

must reach down

creation

priest

The

Calvinist.

is

of

and

nature

but to have no

life,

fixed support in his thoughts about the Creator Himself,

was,

of this

all

for the Calvinist, the

very denying of

the Eternal Logos.

The same the

character

Calvinist

of influence was, in

its

geable law

for

of universality was claimed by of religion and

the sphere

its

circle

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

ordained such laws and ordinances for

demands

the Calvinist

that

service, in strict obedience.

all life

A

all life,

therefore

be consecrated to His

religion confined to the

closet, the cell, or the church, therefore, Calvin abhors.

With the calls upon

God

is

Psalmist, he calls all

upon heaven and

present

life

is

he

peoples and nations to give glory to God. in

all

with

life,

the influence of His

omnipresent and almighty power, and

human

earth,

conceivable

in

wich

no sphere of

religion

does not

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