finally cease in consequence; and this neither Luther nor Calvin seem to have seen. In short, where omnipotence is on one side, what but utter impotence can remain for the other? To make freedom possible, the
antithesis
must be removed. The removal of this
antithesis
of the creature to God is the object of the Redemption, and forms the glorious liberty of the Gospel. More than this I am not permitted to expose.
Ib.
p. 283.
It is not given, nor is it wanting, to all men to have an insight into the mystery of the human will and its mode of inherence on the will which is God, as the ineffable
causa sui
; but this chapter will suffice to convince you that the doctrines of Calvin were those of Luther in this point; — that they are intensely metaphysical, and that they are diverse