Calvinism - pagina 29
the origin and safeguard of our constitutional liberties
1
Constitutional Liberties.
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olution and
its
God
crimes.
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judge them; but
will
in
the face
of guilt and judgment, a blessing was conferred upon
What had
Europe.
all
been refused at the hand of Calvinism,
was received with avidity at the hand of the French liberty heroes, and, however much Rome and the spirits of Restoration and of Romanticism sought re-establishment of the past, the nations of Europe would tolerate it no longer. Hence after the revolution of 1830, as well as after the revolution of 1848, the fruit of Calvinism was spared, at least in part.
Of Calvinism indeed. For what the French Revolution in its own strength, ask it of poor France, which,
wrought after
exhausting herself
for the
sake of a
battled through fourteen revolutions and
of state,
still
hurries on, with a So?
ttov crroi
on her
revolution could accomplish, ask
scourged so
pitilessly,
it
lips,
What
of liberty, which forever eludes her grasp.
in pursuit
been
^jlol
having
false idea,
worn out every form
of Spain, which has been
which from the zenith of her glory has
falling ever lower, until
now
pathy without rousing contempt
she can scarcely claim symalso.
And
for further tes-
timony, Mexico and Peru, Chile and Uraguay,
all of which model revolutionary republics, one of which even boasts would in the Phrygian cap on a dagger as her coat of arms comparison with the Union of the United States eloquently
—
are
—
express this difference.
But danger threatens our western before,
we
appreciate the
fruit
states also.
As
said
of the French Revolution.
According to God's plan, even in its sinfulness, it served This is no to advance the spread of Calvinistic liberties. cause for complaint, but rather for rejoicing. condition, however,
viz.,
Upon one
that the poisonous element which
it
introduced into Europe's state organism be not overlooked. It
did something
more than copy
Calvinistic liberties.
It in-
troduced a system likewise, a catechism and a doctrine, which, in
opposition to
God and
his righteousness,
loosened the
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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