Calvinism - pagina 20
the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties
Calvinism and
662
[Oct.
ferent persons," but echoes the evil doctrnie of ancient date,
which marks princes as a sort of higher beings, but which cannot accord with the confession of the free sovereignty of
The
God.
only lately the
fact that
Duke
of
Chambord
re-
fused to accept the principles of 1789 as flatly as a treaty
with the National Assembly, was the outcome of an equally false
notion of the diyine rights of kings.
Even
for a prince
there cannot be, nor may be, any mention of a regnum dei gratia, or droit divin in another sense than that in which each of us exercises authority conferred on us, and on the
grounds of which, others,
we
are
still
after every recognition of the rights
of
responsible to God.
This likewise shows that the confession of
this divine
hand in hand with abhorrence of all worship of and severely reproves all cringing before the king.
right goes princes, If
God
alone
is
sovereign, then are
we
all,
the king included,
upon Him, and adoration of royalty and
creatures dependent
the esteem of princes as beings of a higher sort, are heinous
committed against the glory of his name. Therehave always demanded that the king as belonging to a church, should be dealt with as any lay member; and when one of the princes of Conde gave command offences
fore the Calvinists
to begin the battle of Drieux, the field preacher did not
shrink from asking him,
in
the presence of his troops,
how
he dared to go to war without making confession of the outrage he had committed upon a daughter of one of his officers.
And
Conde, rather than striking him
in
the face with his
whip, called the outraged father to him, dismounted, and did penance.
This principle of God's sovereignty turns with equal severity against the
supremacy of the
which belongs to God,
is
makes no
The
difference.
state.
Whether that
given to prince, parliament, or state state, as well as the prince, is
a
Him, and therefore may not assume those prerogatives, of which he spake in majesty:
creature that owes existence to
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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