Calvinism - pagina 21
the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties
"
I will
663
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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Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's