Calvinism a life-system - pagina 132

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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been modified

later

your Confessions

in

— concerning the

liberty

of worship and the coordination of Church and

State.

And

than

as far as I

a quarter

Weekly paper the

am

more

personally concerned,

century ago

of a

motto —

free

""'A

wrote above

I

Church

my

in a free

In a hard struggle this motto has ever been lifted

State."

on high by me, and our Netherland churches also are about to reconsider the

our Confession which

article in

touches on this matter.

The

of the

difificulty

problem

lies

the pile and fagots of Servetus.

in

elsewhere.

of the Presbyterians toward the Independents. the restrictions of liberty of worship disabilities",

lands the lies

an

that

fact

in

the Nether-

The

difficulty

of our old Calvinistic

article

entrusts

It lies in

the "civil

in

Catholics have suffered.

of Faith

Confession task,

under which for centuries even

Roman

the

in

and

It lies

the attitude

It lies in

to

government the

the

"of defending against and of extirpating every form

of idolatry and false religion and to protect the sacred

The

service of the Church."

difficulty lies in

the unani-

mous and uniform advice of Calvin and his epigonies, who demanded intervention of the governm.ent in the matter of religion.

The

accusation

is

therefore

natural

a

choosing in favour of liberty of religion, the gauntlet for Calvinism, but that In

order

suspicion,

I

to

differs

;

myself

advance the rule

known by what systems

shield

it

but that

has in it is

we

directly

from

— that

common

distinguished

one

this

a

by

that,

we do not

pick up

oppose

it.

undesirable

system

is

not

with other preceding

by

from those preceding systems.

that in which

it

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