Calvinism a life-system - pagina 123

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

II9

empire neither canrrot be established nor ought

For

in this

Thus peoples and

-These peoples formed States.

God

States

And

appointed £'overnmenU.

allowed the expression, organically

to be.

very desire consisted the contumacy of the

building of Babel's tower. inated,

it

And

over these

thus,

if I

may be

not a natural head, which

is

it

nations orig-

grew from the body of the people, but a

mechanical head, which from without has been placed

upon the trunk of the fore, for a

wrong

beside the plant to hold

of

The

principal

right

of

life

testimony

is

And

and it

is

the

is

and

sword,

the

bears

meaning.

It

is

this

sword of

the

defend the honour and the

of zvar to

the

sword of order, and

Luther out

p'ointed

investiture

full

by reason

government

the interests of the State against

rebellion.

correctly

the

it,

to the ground.

According to the apostolic

magistrate

sword

the

forcible

A stick placed

mete out corporeal punishment to the criminal.

justice, to

rights

fall

of

characteristic

sword has a threefold

Is

would

it

and death.

the

mere remedy there-

up, since without

it

inherent weakness,

its

A

nation.

condition supervening.

that

its

to thwart at his

enemies.

home

all

co-Reformers have

the institution proper and

of the magistrate with power were

after the flood, when God commanded that capital punishment should fall upon him who shed man's blood. The right of taking life belongs only to Him, who can give life, i.e., to God and there-

only brought about

;

fore

no one on

'except

it

earth

be God-given.

is

invested with this authority,

On

this account,

which committed the jus oitae

Roman

et necis to the father

to the slave-owner, stands intrinsically

much

law,

and

lower, than

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