Calvinism - pagina 136

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

132

how

must loosen the foundations

liberty of conscience

of the

of the

unity

opposed mitted

has

must be ad-

it

by praising aloud

of

liberty

abandoned every absolute

principle

in

hand

other

the

Calvinism,

that

conscience,

on

But

it.

church, and therefore she

visible

characteristic of the visible church.

As soon

bosom

as in the

of one and the

same people

the conscience of one half witnessed against that of the

other

the breach had been accomplished, and placards

half,

were no longer of any

As

avail.

early as 1649

declared that persecution, for faith's sake, was ritual

God

murder, an assassination of the

soul, a

most horrible of

sins".

the

himself,

evident that

himself wrote

Calvin

by

of the correct conclusion,

And

esse

dam

esse veniam,

ut tantum

is

allies

:

by

;

still

"Scimus

quibusdam fatemur dan-

modicam castigationem

sufficere,

manifesta impietas capital! supplitio plecta-

That

i)

aliis

et

it

acknowledgment that

his pertinent declaration

errorum gradus,

tres

spi-

the premises

open recognition of the Lutheran Church; and

more emphatically by

tur.

— "a

rage against

even the Catholics are our

against atheists his

his

down

was

it

is

to say:

"There

exists a threefold de-

parture from the Christian truth; a slight one, which

had be

better be left alone;

restored

manifest

a moderate one, which must

by a moderate chastisement; and only must

godlessness

be

admit that

this

decision

in

which

carded

and where that unity

will i)

;

dawn Tome

as

a

is

still

in

a

capitally

punished".

harsh decision, but yet a

principle the visible unity

matter

I

is

dis-

broken, there liberty

of course.

VIII p. 516c Ed. Schippers.

is

For here

lies

the

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