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the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties
ARTICLE
IV.
THE ORIGIN AND SAFEGUARD OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES.*
CALVINISM
:
BY THE REV. ABRAHAM KUYPER,
D. D.
IV.
We
go back another century, from 1650
to 1550,
from
the Calvinistic troubles in England to the struggle of the
France. It must be shown that the IndependHuguenots were congenial to each other, as well as that they differed; only when the affiliation of the two is established, does the line of Calvinistic development appear
Huguenots
in
ents and the
unbroken. Their spiritual ligni's
affiliation is
shown,
first
of
plan of colonization, which, though but
exceedingly noteworthy.
It is
known
well
all,
little
by de Coknown, is
that de Coligni,
was the Cromwell of the Huguenots; and, without his faults, was, no less than the Protector, the soul and sword of Calvinism. As much as four years before the Huguenots took up arms against the court ill J559> ^^^ the martyrs' woes had been endured in silence however
different in character,
for nearly forty years, the natural
began
to see that
it
would not do,
to slaughter without defence.
Boromeus
it
leaders of the Calvinists in
the long run, to submit
From
a writing to Cardinal
appears that the Huguenots numbered nearly
half of the population of France, and this fact stimulated both their desire to offer
armed
resistance,
king to violently exterminate them.
numbers rendered ^
their position critical.
Translated from the Dutch by the Rev,
Bronxville, N. Y.
and the purpose of the
The very increase J.
of their
This was suspected Hendrik de
V'ries,
M.
A.,
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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