Calvinism a life-system - pagina 112

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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only found

^

in

Israel,

because in

God

Israel,

intervened

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

immediately.

and the leadership of His people.

jurisdiction

all the world,

for

of force in

even

all

It is

true for

man

all

]

summarily expressed only

in

three theses:

these

never any creature

—

is

realm of

God,

politics,

by His

—

is

man their

may be i. God

possessed of sovereign

rights, in the destiny of the nations,

rules them,

and

which parents possess over

created them, maintains

and

nations,

exercises over

therefore a political faith which

f

— and

is

authority, which

in the authority

children.

But the

confession of the sovereignty of God, holds

Calvinistic

good

Urini

because

God alone

them by His Almighty power, ordinances.

Sin has, in the

2.

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

power over

And

may reveal itself, man

his fellow-man, in

3.

In whatever

never possesses

any other way than by

an authority which descends upon him from the majesty I

of God.

Directly

opposed

to this Calvinistic confession there

are two other theories. as

it

That of the Popular-sovereignty^

has been anti-theistically proclaimed at Paris in

1789; and that

of State-sovereignty,

been developed by the

Germany.

Both

these

as

it

historico-pantheistic

theories

has of late school of

are at heart identical,

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