Calvinism - pagina 11
the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties
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
Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's