Calvinism a life-system - pagina 116

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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ground of political

refuses to recognize a deeper

that in

which

man

found in nature, that

is

Here the

himself.

The

sovereign

free will

is

man which

God

Dieu

''ni

determines

things.

all

as

the people, there

of

all

All power,

his

the will of

It is

authority

all

Thus one comes from the

individual

many men

conceived

in

those

thus hidden the deepest fountain

is

There

sovereignty.

ni maitre".

and man with

dethroned

is

the many men; and

to

—

placed on the vacant seat.

proceeds from man.

man

is

than

of the confession

first article

of the most absolute infidelity

life

in this instance,

is,

is

no questior^

as in

your

Constitution, of a sovereignty derived from God, which

He, under certain conditions,

Here an

original sovereignty asserts

where and

itself,

which every-

can only proceed from the people

in all states

having no deeper root than

itself, is

implants in the people.

in

human

the

a sovereignty of the people therefore, which

And herein

identical with atheism.

lies its

will.

It

perfectly

is

self-abasement.

In the sphere of Calvinism, as also in your Declaration,

the knee

head

is

is

bowed

proudly

against

clenched

fellow-men, ludicrous

up.

God,

fiction that,

or,

do you ask

as

the

But here, from the standpoint

of the people, the

tinseling

man

God, while over against

while

man

fist

grovels

is

defiantly

before his

over this self-abasement

by the

thousands of years ago, men, of

no one has any remembrance, concluded a

contract,

how

lifted

sovereignty

of the

whom

to

they called

for the result.?

it,

Then,

let

political

Now, History tell you

'•''Contrat

Social'

.

the rebelHon of the Netherlands, the "glorious Revo-

England and your own rebeUion against the Crown have brought liberty to honour; and

lution" of British

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