Calvinism - pagina 21

"

I will

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Constitutional Liberties.

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The

give mine honor to none other."

Calvinists ex-

pressed this idea in their stern assertion, that unto an author-

which commanded things contrary to God and his word, no one need yield, and much less obey. Hero-worship is looked ity

upon by the

Calvinist as a heinous sin;

and whether the PerAugustus

sian despot called himself the sun-god, or Dives

suffered sacrifices before his image, or whether the it is all

the same.

true Calvinist will never be an accomplice in

any such

idea loses itself in apotheosis of the state,

A

modern

abhorrent wickedness as

And more

this.

remains to be

If

said.

God's sovereignty

rules the world, then he executes his plan in the exploits of

heroes as well as by the sins of kings and peoples, and with

made with The Magna Charta was certainly from John Zonderland by his barons in a way

disapproval of WTong, close reckonings must be the results of the latter.

extorted

which renders them

guilty; but that England's parliament

should thereby obtain power, so that

"It

may do

none the

it is

everything except making a

an event which

less

Him

He

sneeringly said:

man

a

woman,"

is

decreed should come to

Nebuchadnezzar it was nevertheless the divine plan that Israel should go into Babylonian exile, and was productive of results for the good of Israel. So with the French Revolution. It was, as Burke expressed it none too strongly, "the most horrible of sins," but it was

pass;

it

created a right by

committed a

sin in

sanctified.

warring against

nevertheless a judgment of

Israel,

God upon

but

kings that the ancient

regime should terminate, and the results of the Revolution should be received with thanksgiving, not to France, but to the sovereign God, and as such accepted also by us, antirevolutionists.

For

this distinguishes us

revolutionists; from the

created

by

history,

men who

will

from the contra-

not recognize the right

and are bent upon the violent destruction

of that which exists by virtue of history.

But

this

merely

in

passing.

For a more important

infer-

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