Calvinism a life-system - pagina 136

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

132

how

must loosen the foundations

liberty of conscience

of the

of the

unity

opposed mitted

church, and therefore she

visible

But on the other hand

it.

by

Calvinism,

that

has

conscience,

praising

of

liberty

abandoned every absolute

principle

in

must be ad-

it

aloud

characteristic of the visible church.

As soon

bosom

as in the

of one and the

same people

the conscience of one half witnessed against that of the

other half, the breach had been accomplished, and placards

were no longer of any

As

avail.

early as 1649

declared that persecution, for faith's sake, ritual

God

most horrible of

the

himself,

himself wrote

Calvin

by

of the correct conclusion,

his

sins".

down

And

allies;

esse

dam

esse veniam,

ut tantum i)

his pertinent declaration

errorum gradus,

tres

aliis

et

is

acknowledgment that

open recognition of the Lutheran Church; and

more emphatically by

it

the premises

even the Catholics are our

against atheists

tur.

spi-

murder, an assassination ofthe soul, a rage against

evident that

his

was

it

w^ — "a

by still

"Scimus

:

quibusdam fatemur dan-

modicam castigationem

sufficere,

manifesta impietas capitali supplitio' plecta-

That

is

to say:

"There

exists a threefold de-

parture from the Christian truth; a slight one, which

had better be

alone;

left

a moderate one, which must

by a moderate chastisement; and only manifest godlessness must be capitally punished". I

be

restored

harsh decision, but yet a

admit that

this

decision

in

which

carded;

and where that unity

will l)

dawn Tome

as

VIII

p.

a

is

still

in

a

principle the visible 2inity

matter

is

dis-

broken, there liberty

of course.

516c Ed. SchiiDpers.

is

For here

lies

the

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