Calvinism - pagina 112

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

I08

only found

in

Israel,

because in

God

Israel,

intervened

Urim and Tliummim and by Prophecy; both by His saving miracles, and by His chastising judgments, He held in His own hand the For both by

immediately.

jurisdiction

and the leadership of His people.

Calvinistic

confession of the sovereignty of God, holds

good

all the world,

for

of force in

even

all

It is

— and

man

all

which parents possess over

in

these

never any creature

created them, maintains rules them,

realm of

God,

politics,

and

exercises over

—

three theses: is

—

is

man

;

their

may be i. God

possessed of sovereign

rights, in the destiny of the nations,

and

nations,

therefore a political faith which

summarily expressed only

true for

authority, which

in the authority

children.

is

But the

because

God alone

them by His Almighty power,

by His ordinances.

2.

Sin has, in the

broken down the direct government of

and therefore the exercise of authority,

for the

purpose of government, has subsequently been invested in

men, as a mechanical remedy.

form

this authority

And

may reveal itself, man

3.

In whatever

never possesses

any other way than by an authority which descends upon him from the majesty power over

his fellow-man, in

of God.

opposed to

this Calvinistic confession there

are two other theories.

^\i'dXoi\\\Q Popnlar-sovereigntyy

Directly

as

it

1789;

has been anti-theistically proclaimed at Paris in

and that of State-sovereignty,

been developed by

Germany.

Both

the

these

as

it

historico-pantheistic

theories

has of late school of

are at heart identical.

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