Calvinism - pagina 123

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CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

II

empire neither cannot be established nor ought

For

in this

Thus peoples and

These peoples formed

States.

God appointed ^'overnmenls. And

States

allowed the expression, organically

to be.

very desire consisted the contumacy of the

building of Babel's tower. inated.

it

And

over these

thus,

if I

may

be

not a natural head, which

is

it

nations orig-

grew from the body of the people, but a

mec/iamcal head, which from without has been placed

upon the trunk of the a

fore, for

The

principal

of

right

life

testimony

and death.

And

and the it

is

correctly

the

government sword,

the

bears

meaning.

war

the

It

is

the

to defend the

the

is

and

this

sword of

honour and the

sword of order, to thwart

pointed

and

Luther out

investiture

full

to the ground.

interests of the State against

rebellion.

forcible

of

by reason

mete out corporeal punishment to the criminal.

the sword of

rights

fall

it,

According to the apostolic

magistrate

the

justice, to is

would

it

characteristic

sword has a threefold

Is

A stick placed

up, since without

it

inherent weakness,

its

mere remedy there-

wrong condition supervening.

beside the plant to hold

of

A

nation.

his

its

at

enemies.

home

all

co-Reformers have

that the institution proper and

of the magistrate with power were

when God commanded that capital punishment should fall upon him who shed man's blood. The right of taking life belongs only brought about

only to Him, fore

who can

no one on earth

except

it

the

after

be God-given.

give is

flood,

life,

i.e.,

to

God and ;

there- \\

invested with this authority,

On

this account,

which committed the jus vitae

et necis to

to the slave-owner, stands intrinsically

Roman

law,

the father and

much

lower, than

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