Calvinism a life-system - pagina 143

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

Of an

entirely

nature,

different

the last question, to which

of the government,

1

39

on the contrary,

is

I referred,

as regards

namely the duty

the sovereignty of the

individual person.

the second part of this

In

indicated

sphere of

individual

Here

circle.

social

to

developed

the

that

do not

I

bond between

that,

which

I

also

have already possesses

sovereignty in his

refer to the family, for this

several individuals.

I

Souverain,

is."

I)

der

("Every

sovereign in his bility.")

way

Or

an

own is

a

have reference

thus expressed by Prof. Weitbrecht:

is

doch vermoge seines Gewissens jeder

"'Ist

ein

iiber

ein

Konig,

jede Verantwortung erhaben

man stands a king in his conscience, a own person, exempt from all responsiwhich Held has formulated

that,

in this

"In gewisser Beziehung wird jeder Mensch supremus

:

oder

Souverain

denn jeder Mensch

sein,

Sphare haben, und hat der Oberste

life

sie

audi wirklich,

in

muss

eine

welcher er

some respect every man is a 2) everybody must have and has, a sphere (In

ist,"

sovereign, for

of

with

life,

lecture

man

which he has no one above him,

of his own, in

but

God

the

importance of conscience, for whosoever wishes to

liberate

alone.)

conscience,

concerned,

This

i)

opponent,

however does not prevent

in

man

Weitbrecht,

2) Held,

my

His

Word

not as an

are ally.

maintaining the

of conscience, as the palladium of all per-

liberty,

subject to

this to over-estimate

where God and

meet as an

I

sovereignty sonal

do not point to

I

this

sense

— that

conscience

but always and ever to

Woher und Wohin.

Verfassungsystem

I p.

234,

is

never

God Almighty.

Stuttgart 1877 p. 103.-

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