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CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

Every

competent

historian

without

will

of Bancroft: — "The

confirm the words

99 exception

fanatic for Cal-

vinism was a fanatic for liberty, for in the moral warfare for

freedom,

his

most

was

creed

his

ally

faithful

in

a part of his army,

the

battle."

van Prinsterer has thus expressed

it

and

And Groen

i)

"In Calvinism

:

lies

the origin and guarantee of our constitutional liberties."

That Calvinism has

Western Europe, then

in

new

led public law into in

paths, first

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

purpose

for the

of this important fact

order

In

political

in view, the

of Calvinism

influence

may be

development

felt,

opened the door, and how these sprang from

justification gically,

ivhole

and

by

principle

faith,

Cosmos^

invisible.

in

A in

political

was

not, soteriologically,

all

of the

its

Tritme

a

threefold

deduced 2.

supremacy,

you how

in the CJiurch.

v\^as

understood by Calvinism. Bancroft, History of 464. Ed.

the

New

by pointing

deduced Sovereignty

threefold

this

viz.,

The Sovereignty

to argue this matter in detail

to

I.

over the

primordial Sovereignty which eradiates

out

Boston 1853,

God

spheres and kingdoms, visible

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

conceptions

but, in the wildest sense cosmolo-

Sovereignty

the

mankind

in

i)

must be shown,

root principle.

its

This dominating

in

it

on our

what fundamental pohtical conceptions Calvinism has

for

I.

mere statement

insufficient.

is

the

that

have

I

United States of America. Fifteenth Ed.

York, 1891,

I.

319.

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