Calvinism - pagina 132

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

128

been modified

later

And

than

as far as

quarter

a

Weekly paper

— concerning the

and the coordination of Church and

liberty of worship State.

your Confessions

in

I

more

personally concerned,

century ago

of a

the

am

motto —

free

'•'A

wrote above

I

Church

my

in a free

In a hard struggle this motto has ever been lifted

State."

on high by me, and our Netherland churches also are about to reconsider the

our Confession which

article in

touches on this matter.

The

of the problem

difficulty

lies

and fagots of Servetus.

in the pile

elsewhere.

of the Presbyterians toward the Independents.

disabilities",

lands the lies

Confession task,

"-'of

under which for centuries even

Roman

the

in

and

of

an

Faith

the

''civil

the Nether-

of our old Calvinistic

article

entrusts

It lies in

The difficulty

Catholics have suffered. that

fact

in in

lies

the attitude

It lies in

the restrictions of liberty of worship

It

to

government the

the

defending against and of extirpating every form

of idolatry and false religion and to protect the sacred

The

service of the Church."

difficulty lies in the unani-

mous and uniform advice of Calvin and his epigonies, who demanded intervention of the governm.ent in the matter of religion.

The

accusation

is

a

therefore

choosing in favour of liberty of religion, the gauntlet for Calvinism, but that In

order

suspicion,

I

to

differs

;

myself

advance the rule

known by what systems

shield

it

but that

has in it is

by we do not pick up

natural

we

directly

from

— that

common

distinguished

one

this

a

that,

oppose

it.

undesirable

system

is

not

with other preceding

by

from those preceding systems.

that in which

it

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