Calvinism a life-system - pagina 107

CALVINISM AND POLITICS. which

danger,

power of the

our personal liberty,

for

lurks,

IO3 the

in

j

State.

But Calvinism has done more. us,

that the Jnnnan element

be

considered

the

as

In Politics also

— here

the people

thing,

principal

only dragged in to help this people

in

it

taught

— may

not

God

so that

the hour of

is

its

on the contrary that God, In His Majesty, must, flame before the eyes of every nation, and that but

need;

all

Him

nations together are to be reckoned before

as

a drop of a bucket and as the small dust of the balances.

From

the ends

God

of the earth

They

the nations.

And

therefore

must

all

Him.

For God created

They

these nations, and in

are His own.

them

humanity,

all

and consequently after his

glory

His

for

exist

exist for

when they

ordinances, in order that in their well-being,

walk

after

and

cites all nations

peoples before His high judgment seat.

His ordinances. His divine wisdom

may shine

forth.

When a

therefore humanity

of separate

multiplicity

bosom

falls

apart through

peoples;

of these nations, separates

when

men and

sin, in

sin,

in

tears

the

them

manner of apart, and when sin reveals shame and unrighteousness, the glory of God demands itself in

all

—

that these horrors be chaos,

bridled, that order return to this

and that a compulsory

force,

from

without,

make human society a possibility. is possessed by God, and by Him alone,

assert itself to

This right

No man '

otherwise

has

such

the

a

right

right

to

rule over another

becomes, the right of the strongest. the jungle

rules

man,

necessarily, and immediately

over the

defenceless

As

the tiger in

antilope,

so on

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