Calvinism - pagina 107

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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our personal

liberty, in the

which

danger,

for

lurks,

power of the State. But Calvinism has done more. In

hwnan element

us,

that the

be

considered

only dragged

principal

the people

people

in to help this

all

— may

not

God

hour of

in the

must flame before the eyes of every

taught

it

so that

thing,

on the contrary that God,

but

need;

the

as

— here

Politics also

is

its

His Majesty,

in

and that

nation,

Him

nations together are to be reckoned before

as

a drop of a bucket and as the small dust of the balances.

ends

FroiTi the

God

of the earth

cites all nations

For God created

peoples before His high judgment seat.

They

the nations.

And

therefore

must

exist

all

exist for

They

these nations, and in

His

for

Him.

them

are His own.

after

after his

when they

ordinances, in order that in their well-being,

walk

humanity,

all

and consequently

glory

and

His ordinances, His divine wisdom

may shine

forth.

When a

humanity

therefore

of separate

multiplicity

falls

of these nations, separates

apart,

and when

—

men and

sin,

in

sin,

in the

tears

them

manner of the glory of God demands

reveals

shame and unrighteousness,

when

peoples;

bosom

sin

apart through

itself

in

all

that these horrors be bridled, that order return to this

chaos,

and

compulsory

a

that

force,

from

without,

make human society a possibility. is possessed by God, and by Him alone.

assert itself to

This right

No man otherwise

has

such

the a

right

right

to

rule over another

necessarily,

becomes, the right of the strongest. the jungle

rules

over the defenceless

man,

and immediately

As

the tiger in

antilope,

so on

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