Calvinism - pagina 113

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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but for the sake of clearness they demand a separate treatment.

What was it, of men in the

that impelled and animated the spirits

A

despotism?

horror of a crowned

In part certainly, but in

that

little

Indignation

?

noble defense of the rights and liberties

of the people?

so

A

which had crept in?

at abuses,

is

French revolution

great

is

sinful, that

this there

all

even a Calvinist gratefully

recognizes, in these three particulars, the divine judgment,

which

at that time

was executed

at Paris.

But the impelling force of the French Revolution did not

lie

in this

compares principle

When Edmund

hatred of abuses.

Burke

"glorious Revolution" of 1688, with the

the

of the

Revolution of 1789, he says

—

:

"Our

revolution and that of France are just the reverse of each

and

other, in almost every particular,

of the transaction."

This same

in the

whole

spirit

i)

Edmund

Burke, was so bitter an antagonist

the French revolution, has manfully defended your rebellion

own

against England, as "arising from a principle

of energy, showing

cause of a free

itself in

spirit,

this

good people the main

the most adverse to

all

implicit

submission of mind and opinion."

The left

three great revolutions in the Calvinistic world

untouched the glory of God, nay they even proceeded

from the acknowledgment of His majesty. will

admit

William the the

I)

this

of our

Silent.

rebelHon

Nor has

it

Every one

against Spain, under

even been doubted of

"glorious Revolution", which was crowned

Burke, Works

III p. 25 Ed.

McLean, London.

by the

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