Calvinism - pagina 116

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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refuses to recognize a deeper

that which in

man

found

is

that

in nature,

Here the

himself.

ground of political is,

in this instance,

first article

of the confession

of the most absolute infidelity

The

God

sovereign

on the vacant

free will is placed

man which

is

— "ni

determines

things.

all

Dieu

ni maitre".

man

and

dethroned

is

than

life

seat.

the will of

It is

All power,

with his

all

authority

Thus one comes from the individual the many men; and in those many men conceived

proceeds from man.

man

to

as

the people, there

of

all

is

thus hidden the deepest fountain

There

sovereignty.

is

no question, as

in

your

Constitution, of a sovereignty derived from God, which

He, under certain conditions,

Here an

original sovereignty asserts

where and

itself,

which every-

only proceed from the people

in all states can

having no deeper root than

itself, is

implants in the people.

human

the

in

a sovereignty of the people therefore, which

And

identical with atheism.

herein

lies its

is

will.

It

perfectly

self-abasement.

In the sphere of Calvinism, as also in your Declaration,

the knee

head

is

is

bowed

proudly

to God, while over against

lifted up.

clenched

against

fellow-men,

God,

tinseling

the

But here, from the standpoint

sovereignty of the people, the

of the

man

while

man

fist

grovels

is

defiantly

before his

over this self-abasement

by the

ludicrous fiction that, thousands of years ago, men, of

whom

no one has any remembrance, concluded a

contract,

or,

do you ask

how

as

they called

for the result?

it,

''^Coutrat

Then,

let

political

Sociar\ Now,

History

tell

you

the rebellion of the Netherlands, the '''glorious Revo-

lution" of British

England and your own

Crown have brought

rebellion against the

liberty

to

honour; and

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