Calvinism a life-system - pagina 138

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

134 himself

may

the

catch

knowledge of the Divine the

God-consciousness innate exercise

to

And

as regards

the magistrate to restrain

of

riglit

which he needs

light

will.

man

every

in

it

for the

blasphemy, rests in the

and the duty

;

God

right flows from the fact that

this

is

Supreme and Sovereign Ruler over every State and

the

But

over every Nation. of blasphemy

when

What

apparent contumaciously to affront

is

God

as Stiprevie Ruler

then punished

is

fact

only then to be deemed established,

is

the intention

majesty of

this

very reason the

for this

is

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

in

this

a

respect

noteworthy

between States which are absolutely governed

difference

by a monarch and or

tutionally;

in

States which are governed consti-

a republic, in a

still

wider range, by

an extensive assembly. In

monarch the consciousness and the

absolute

the

personal will are one, and thus this one person to

rule

people after his

his

of the ordinances of God,

is

lost

and

called

personal conception

on the contrary the

many

cooperate,

this

and the subjective conception of the

ordi-

consciousness unity

own

When

is

the

of

will

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

But whether you are dealing with the

a

single

a

decision

individual,

arrived

or with the will of at

by

a

vote,

remains that the government has independently.

Not

as

many

will of

men,

in

the principal thing

to judge

and to decide

an appendix to the Church, nor

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