A rose, a lily, and the Face of Christ
Have all our hearts sufficed:
For He is Rose of Sharon nobly born,
Our Rose without a thorn;
And He is Lily of the Valley, He
Most sweet in purity.
But when we come to name Him as He is,
Godhead, Perfection, Bliss,
All tongues fall silent, while pure hearts alone
Complete their orison.
__Christina Rossetti
Warfield: Double Predestination Preserves And Protects Against Synergism In
The Doctrine Of Salvation
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One needs to read but a little way into the treatise to perceive how
strongly and indeed even passionately Calvin insisted upon this point. The
reason for ...
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