Calvinism a life-system - pagina 137

CALVINISM AND POLITICS. problem

of the

solution

:

1

With Rome the system

33 of

persecution issued from the indentification of the visible

with the invisible church, and from

But what he

departed.

Calvin

was the

fending

experience,

true as

may

persevered in de-

itself,

and

it

only wanted

in

our personal conviction,

never be imposed by force upon other people.

So much

for the facts.

magistrate

things

in

2^ ,' towards

the

Church,

As

the

first

regards

remain

Now

let

us put the theory

the test and look successively at the duty of

to

itself

the

line

realize that also this proposition,

to

must ever remain

it

still

dangerous

identification of his Confession of the

Truth with the absolute Truth fuller

tliis

— '•'God's

spiritual:

and

servants."

towards God,

towards mdividitals.

3".

the

point,

i".

magistrates

They have to

are and

recognize

God

Supreme Ruler, from Whom they derive their power. They have to serve God, by ruling the people according to His ordinances. They have to restrain blasphemy, as

where

directly

it

assumes the character of an affront

And

to the Divfne Majesty.

recognized,

as the Source of

Sabbath, by giving,

His

'bound natural to

the

all

poHtical power,

and by invoking His Divine

life

order that they

in

holy to

in

is

to be

the Constitution

by maintaining the

proclaiming days of prayer and thanks-

Therefore to

God's supremacy

by confessing His name

ordinances,

investigate

and

decision

in

the

govern, according

every magistrate rights

His Word.

of any

may

blessing.

is

in

duty

of God, both in the

Not

to subject himself

church, but in order that he

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