Calvinism a life-system - pagina 103

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

Every

competent

historian

without

will

confirm the words of(Bancroft:

— "The

vinism was a fanatic for liberty, for for

freedom,

his

most

was

creed

his

ally

faithful

exception

fanatic for Cal-

in the

moral warfare

and

a part of his army,

the

in

99

battle."

van Prinsterer has thus expressed

it

i)^

And

lies

the origin and guarantee of our constitutional liberties."^

That Calvinism has led public law into new paths, first in Western Europe, then in two Continents, and to-day

more and more among all civilized nations, is admitted by all scientific students, if not yet fully by public opinion. But for the purpose of this important fact In

order

political

may

be

felt,

gically,

by

whole Cosmos,

and

invisible.

mankind

in

principle

faith,

in

A in

political

was

not, soteriologically,

all

of the

its

Triujie

in

to

over the

primordial Sovereignty which eradiates a

threefold

Allow me to argue out

God

spheres and kingdoms, visible

deduced

The Sovereignty in the State; Society ; and 3. The Sovereignty

I.

conceptions

but, in the widest sense cosmolo-

Sovereignty

t/ie

on our

must be shown,

root principle.

its

This dominating justification

it

conceptions Calvinism has

political

opened the door, and how these sprang from

mere statement

of Calvinism

influence

development

what fundamental

for

in view, the

insufficient.

is

the

that

have

I

you how

this

supremacy,

viz.,

The Sovereignty

in the

CJmrch.

matter in detail by pointing

deduced Sovereignty

threefold

this

2.

was understood by Calvinism. .

I)

Bancroft, History of

Boston 1853,

I.

464. Ed.

the

New

United States of America. Fifteenth Ed.

York, 1891,

I.

319.

\

(Groen

"In Calvinism

:

,

i

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