Reformed & Puritan Library
For if it has pleased him to appoint kings over kingdoms, and senates or burgomasters over free states, whatever be the form which he has appointed in the places in which we live, our duty is to obey and submit. 9. The duty of magistrate?, its nature, as described by the word of God, and the things in which it consists, I will here indicate in…
John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book IV, Chapter 20 — Of civil government
Search the Reformed theological library →