The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 367

—

XXV. Not a Divine-Human Nature. "

I in

them, and they in Me.'—/oAn

xvii. 23.

The

union of believers with the Mediator, of all matters of faith is invisible, imperceptible to the senses, and unfathomable it escapes all inward vision it refuses to be dissected or to be made objective by any representation in the fullest sense the most tender,

;

;

;

of the

word

it is

mystical

unto mystica, as Calvin, after the

of the early Church, called

And

yet,

however mysterious, no man

according to his

own

example

it.

notions

is

at liberty to interpret

need of great vigilance lest under the pious appearance of this mystic love injurious it

;

in fact, there is

contraband be smuggled into the divine sanctuary.

We have there-

fore raised our voice against the false representations of former

mystical sects, and of the Ethical theorists of the present time. Let us first explain the Ethical teaching on this point.

Their belief starts from the antithesis existing between God a.nd God is the Creator, man is a creature. God is infinite, man finite. God dwells in the eternal, and man lives in the temporal. man.

God

holy,

is

exist,

and man

is

unholy

And

harmony.

So long as these contrasts no unity, no reconciliation, no

etc.

;

so they teach, there can be

as the pantheistic philosophy used to talk about

three stages through which life

must run its course— first, that of proposition (thesis), then that of contrast (antithesis), and lastly that of reconciliation, combination (synthesis) so the Ethicals

—

teach that between tithesis,

and

In the

God and man

there exist these three

:

thesis,

an-

synthesis.

first

place, there is God.

This

is

the thesis, the proposi-

Opposed to this thesis in God, the antithesis, contrast, appears in man. And this thesis and antithesis find their reconciliation.

tion, synthesis, in the Mediator, who is at once finite and infinite, burdened with our guilt and holy, temporal, and eternal. It is only recently that we quoted the following sentence from

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