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the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties

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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

Calvinism - pagina 20

Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1895

Abraham Kuyper Collection | 34 Pagina's