Calvinism - pagina 128

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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and In

communal autonomy.

married

all

these four spheres the State-government cannot

impose

life,

4.

In

must reverence the innate law of

laws, but

its

God

life.

and

of

supremely and

rules in these spheres, just as

sovereignly through his chosen virtuosi, as

He

dominion

through

sphere of the State

in the

itself,

exercises his

chosen magistrates.

Bound by

may

neither

its

own mandate

therefore the

government

ignore nor modify nor disrupt the divine

The

mandate, under which these social spheres stand. sovereignty,

by the grace

of God, of the government

is

here set aside and limited, for God's sake, by another sovereignty,

the

life

which

is

nor of

of science

of industry,

nor

human

relationship

to suit itself to the grace of the

of

life.

It all

must occupy

its

own

stifles

place,

independently, in this

own

its

mean

It

Not

at

life,

State

the whole

own

its

root, it

has

which grows

sacred autonomy.

in these

right

autonomous spheres of

all.

possesses the threefold right and duty

different spheres

clash, to

boundary-Hnes of each;

weak

The

the government has no

that

whatever of interference life.?

on

be coerced

the other trees of the forest, and thus

honour and maintain every form of

Does

may

government.

never become an octopus, which

among to

nor of agriculture, nor

art,

of commerce, nor of navigation, nor

of the family, nor of

may

Neither

equally divine in origin.

2.

:

i.

Whenever

compel mutual regard

To

for the

defend individuals and the

ones, in those spheres, against the abuse of power

of the

rest;

and

3.

To

coerce

all

together

to bear

personal and financial burdens for the maintenance of

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