Was John Wycliffe a theonomist?
“The law of Christ, when perfectly executed, teaches most rightfully how every injustice must be extirpated from the commonwealth, and how those offending against the law should be chastised.”
John Wycliffe
Was John Calvin a Theonomist?
“That to discern that there is nothing but vanity in all worldly devices, we must know the Laws and ordinances of God. But if we rest upon men’s laws, surely it is not possible for us to judge rightly.”
John Calvin
Was Heinrich Bullinger a Theonomist?”
“Kings are not as lords and rulers over the word and laws of God; but are, as subjects, to be judged by God by the word, as they ought to rule and govern all things according to the rule of His word and commandment.”
Heinrich Bullinger
Was John Knox a Theonomist?
“Kings then have not absolute power to do in their regiment what pleaseth them; but their power is limited by God’s Word. So that if they strike where God commandeth not, they are but murderers; and if they spare were God commandeth to strike they and their throne are criminal, and guilty of wickedness that aboundeth upon the face of the earth for their lack of punishment.”
John Knox
Was Zwingli a Theonomists?
“For He [God] wills that His Word alone be obeyed, and that the life be regulated by it alone.”
