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The word “sovereignty” means “one who is above all.” It is the supreme and highest power. The Christian defines the Sovereign Lord as unlimited, independent, with original authority. For fallen man, sovereignty belongs to the state because the state is the source of law. Since the Christian can have no other gods, history is defined appropriately by Augustine as a conflict between the City of...

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. (Gal. 1:10) What Scripture requires of us is obedience to God and the defense of God’s realm. The tax revolt, while against a form of taxation which Scripture does not permit, is a defense of one’s own wealth or money rather than God’s Kingdom. Thus, Grotius on two counts strayed radically from the faith. First, while formally retaining God’s sovereignty, he insisted that
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