Calvinism - pagina 141

CALVINISM AND POLITICS. was counted the according"

one,

continuity of state-administration and church-position

all is

of the vote; and thus

decision

the

37

to-day considered the true

false one, is

to

1

lost.

Hence

is

it

that the Calvinists have always struggled

so proudly and courageously for the liberty, that

say for the sovereignty, of the Church, within her sphere,

In

distinction

in

Her

King. the

to

gifts

And

distinguish

her

privilege,

her

own

way she has

truth from the

and not that of the

own

the

as

but jitre divino.

She possesses her own

in a similar

characteristics

proclaim her

own her by

not assigned

is

Government,

of the

She has her own organisation. office-bearers.

own

from the Lutheran theologians.

position in the State

permission

to

contended, the Church has her

they

Christ,

is

lie.

It

is

her

own

therefore

State, to determine

true

Church,

and to

confession, as the confession of the

truth. If in this position

she

will

spiritual

fight

and

she

against social

tests the right of

is

opposed by other churches,

these

her spiritual battle, with

weapons; but she denies and con-

every one whomsoever, and therefore

also of the government, to pose as a different

institutions

power above these

and to render a decision between

her and her sister-churches.

The government bears

sword which wounds; not the sword of the

And

decides in spiritual questions. Calvinists

which

for this reason the

have ever resisted the idea to assign to the

government a patria regulates

Spirit,

the

in

his

potestas.

family

the

To

religion

be sure a father of that

family.

But when the government was organized, the family

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