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Biblical Criticism of the Present
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with anxiety, and thirsts after certainty.
filled
of one
who
[Oct.
In the heart
so apprehended of the Lord, even though he be
is
a plain day-laborer, the sacred things of the Almighty have
found a lodging, and therefore in the depths of
powers of
waged
flict is
him
;
except
and
as of giant-forces in his breast,
he sees no
He who
sets
way
of escape
and that oppresses
he faints beneath
;
its
tension,
compassionate takes compassion on him,
is
him up upon
the
Word, does
stands on that
his soul the
Thus a con-
antagonize those sacred things.
hell
Rock
Only when he
Word.
of the
the oil of gladness drip in his soul
instead of mourning, and the garments of praise begin to shine forth in place of the spirit of heaviness,
forth in singing the praises of
bonds
;
also
man, who
Him who
and the man breaks
has set him free from
from those oppressing bonds of dependency upon
at best is
but a creature of dust.
peace, an unshakable
faith,
and a
full
For
to obtain real
development of powers,
our soul must, in the depth of depths and forsaken of
To draw
depend on God Almighty alone. mediately from God's ly,
this renders
own
all
one's being im-
hand, consciously and continuous-
one invincible, enables one to become heroic,
and makes us surpass ourselves.
This was the secret of the
power by which Calvinism once astonished the world. forms character,
men,
steels
That
the will with energy, and sets man,
the citizen, the confessor of Jesus, truly free.
But how does the Lord impart
this
assurance, with and
without the intervention of man, to the numbers of his
and through them
to the
church?
We
tion sharply in the face, for there are
elect,
should look this ques-
many
reasons, because
of which the Scripture, such as the churches and especially the laity have tainty.
In the
it
in these days, in itself falls short of this cer-
first place,
of the books of the
as far as
we know,
Holy Scripture have been
all
the autographa
lost,
and we have
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's