Calvinism - pagina 119

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CALVINISM AND POLITICS. Therefore

both to the atheistic popular-

in opposition

sovereignty

II5

of the Encyclopedians, and the pantheistic

German

state-sovereignty of

philosophers, the Calvinist

maintains the sovereignty of God, as the source of authority

and best

among men. in

The

Calvinist upholds the highest

our aspirations, by placing every

every people before the face of our Father

He

all

man and

in heaven.

takes cognizance of the fact of sin, which erstwhile

was juggled away

in

extravagance,

accounted the essence of our being.

Calvinism

tie,

and which now,

in pessimistic

points to the difference between the natural

of our

concatnation ical

in

1789,

organic

society

and the mechan-

which the authority of the magistrate imposes.

It

makes

all

authority,

easy for us to obey authority, because, in

it

sovereignty.

it

causes us to honour the

demand

of divine

us from an obedience born of dread

It Hfts

of the strong arm, into an obedience for conscience sake. It

teaches us to look

source

upward from the

of the eternal

Right

in

existing law to the

God, and

it

creates in

us the indomitable courage incessantly to protest against

the unrighteousness of the law in the

name

of this highest

And, however, powerfully the State may assert and oppress the free individual development, above

Right. itself

that powerful State there soul's

the

eye,

as infinitely

King of kings

tains

unto bless

house

the

right

Whom our

of

;

is

always

glittering, before

our

more powerful, the majesty of

Whose appeal

righteous for

all

bar ever main-

the oppressed, and

the prayer of the people ever ascends, to nation

and,

in

that

nation,

us

and our

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