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Calvinism - pagina 11

the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties

2 minuten leestijd Arcering uitzetten

1

Constitutional Liberties.

895-]

way of

653

a social contract, and for the sake of the advantages

which accrue from an are the very ideas of

These

establislied order of things."

Rousseau

And we

!

"The

read further:

people that have lent authority to the king have reserved highest authority for themselves, even over the king"; and

when the king becomes

"The

tyrant,

assassination of such a

despot, after the examples set by classic Greece and

Rome,

most praiseworthy of deeds." This Jacobin passion becomes so heated in this pamphlet, that a is

to be lauded as the

man from

the people

is

finally

patricide used to be drowned,

sewn up

would

be,

if

in the case of

in

What

a rooster, a serpent, and an ape. it

"A

introduced to exclaim:

a bag together with

an excellent thing

form of punishment could be repeated

this old

King Charles, the slayer of his country. Cathmight go with him as the serpent, Anjou as

erine de' Medici

the rooster, the

Duke

of Retz could play the ape, and, freed

from these four villainous good-for-nothings, France could

once more be powerful as of yore."

These bloodthirsty notions were not engendered by Calvinism, but mingled with

it.

Calvinism was

known

Romish

John Parvus,

priest

They were rife in France before all. As early as 1408 the

there at

in

his "Justificatio

Ducis Bur-

gundiae coram rege recitata," defended and lauded the assassination of tyrants, saying that, on the strength of natural,

moral, and divine laws, every citizen has the right to slay a tyrant, without official authority; this

was the more meritori-

ous, according as the tyrant's chances of escape from the gal-

lows were favorable.

The Sorbonne condemned

this

book

in

1416, and with equal solemnity recalled this sentence in 1418.

Moreover, John Parvus stood not alone in this matter. Even van Salisbury and Gerson, the Doctor christianissimus, "proclaimed doctrines about authority which were equally questionable," and the Spanish Jesuit

his "

Rege

for

et

John Mariana, in Regis Institutione," said that he wrote

Philip III,, the Infanta, in like spirit.

De

King

Equally positive and

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Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895

Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's

Calvinism - pagina 11

Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895

Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's