Calvinism a life-system - pagina 142

CALVINISM AND POLITICS.

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but remained; and the government

was not

set

received

only a limited task, which

aside,

sovereignty

the

in

individual sphere,

by the sovereignty of

all

is

and not

least of

not refuse, in Europe at

efifects

ent

Only

Christ in Plis Church,

let us guard here against exaggerated Puritism

us

by the

defined

least,

of historical conditions.

and

let

to reckon with the

an entirely

It is

differ-

matter whether one puts up a new building, on a

whether one must restore a house which

free lot, or

is

standing.

But

can in

this

rule that the

the Church

has

to

Church

government must honour the complex of

churches,

Christian

churches.

the

as

on

of Christ

Christ

the

in

That churches

the government

allows

multiform

i.

e.

the sovereignty of the

flourish

to

most

live

strength on the voluntary principle. neither

sphere

individual

them

manifestation of

That the magistrate

earth.

the liberty

respect

of

no regard break the fundamental

that therefore

State to the Church, taught

of the

Rome; nor

'•'Cuius regio eius religio" of

jurists;

when

of Russia;

the subjection

the

richly,

from their own

And

the Coesaropapy of the Czar

of these

nor

by

the Lutheran

nor the irrehgious neutral standpoint of the

French revolution; but that only the system of a Church, in a free State,

free

may be honored from a Calvinistic

standpoint.

The

sovereignty of the State and the sovereignty of

the Church exist side

each other.

by

side,

and they mutually hmit

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