Calvinism - pagina 138

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

134 himself

may

catch

knowledge of the Divine the

right

which he needs

Hght

the

And

will.

as regards

the magistrate to restrain

of

God-consciousness innate in every exercise

to

the

man

it ;

blasphemy, rests in the

and the duty

God

right flows from the fact that

this

the

for

is

Supreme and Sovereign Ruler over every State and

over every Nation. of blasphemy

when

What

very reason the

fact

apparent contumaciously to affront

is

God

of

as

then punished

is

for this

only then to be deemed established,

is

the intention

majesty

this

But

is

Supreme Ruler of

the State.

not the religious offence, nor

the impious sentiment, but the attack upon the foundation of

public

upon which both the State and

law,

government are Meanwhile

its

resting.

there

is

this

in

respect

a

noteworthy

between States which are absolutely governed

difference

by a monarch and States which are governed tutionally;

or

in

a republic, in a

still

consti-

wider range, by

an extensive assembly. In

absolute

the

monarch the consciousness and the

personal will are oney and thus this one person to

rule

people after

his

his

of the ordinances of God.

consciousness unity

is

lost

and

the

own

When

called

is

personal conception

on the contrary the

many

cooperate,

this

and the subjective conception of the

ordi-

will

of

nances of God, by these many, can only be indirectly applied.

But whether you are dealing with the

a

individual,

single

or with the will of

will of

many men,

in

by a vote, the principal thing remains that the government has to judge and to decide independently. Not as an appendix to the Church, nor a

decision

arrived

at

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