Note 185 — Chapter IV
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Calvin did not lack imagination. The sanctified imagination has never made grander or loftier flight than in the thought of the Purpose of God moving slowly down through the Ages, making for redemption and for the establishment of the Kingdom, which is the master-idea in the Christian Institution. It was de Bèze (Beza), not Calvin, who was the father of the seventeenth century doctrine of predestination,—a conception which differed from Calvin’s as widely as the skeleton differs from the man instinct with life and action.