Calvinism a life-system - pagina 128

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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and

of married

In

impose

4.

In

communal autonomy.

must reverence the innate law of

laws, but

its

God

life.

and

life,

these four spheres the State-government cannot

all

supremely and

rules in these spheres, just as

sovereignly through his chosen virtuosi, as

He exercises

dominion

through

sphere of the State

in the

itself,

his

chosen magistrates.

Bound by

may

neither

its

own mandate

therefore the

government

ignore nor modify nor disrupt the divine

The

mandate, under which these social spheres stand.

by the grace of God, of the gov«rnment is aside and limited, for God's sake, by another

sovereignty,

here

set

sovereignty,

the

life

which

of industry,

nor

nor of

among to

human

relationship

never become an octopus, which

life.

It all

must occupy

its

own

place,

this

own

its

mean

It

at

own

its

life,

root, it

has

which grows

sacred autonomy.

in these

right

autonomous spheres of

all.

possesses the threefold right and duty

different spheres

clash, to

boundary-hnes of each

weak

The State the whole

the government has no

that

whatever of interference

Not

on

be coerced

the other trees of the forest, and thus

independently, in

life?

may

stifles

honour and maintain every form of

Does

Neither

nor of agriculture, nor

grace of the government.

to suit itself to the

of

art,

of commerce, nor of navigation, nor

of the family, nor of

may

equally divine in origin.

is

of science

;

2.

:

i.

Whenever

compel mutual regard

To

defend individuals

for the

and the

ones, in those spheres, against the abuse of power

of the

rest;

and

3.

To

coerce

all

together

to bear

personal and financial burdens for the maintenance of

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