人是否遗忘了神的主权与晓得祂的忿怒？
加尔文基督教要义（第四卷第20章25节）
。。。那因为，虽然主宣告：保护我们安全的统治者是祂出于仁慈而赐下的殊恩，并且规定了他们合宜的本分，但是他同时宣告，不管统治者的品行如何，他们的权力都是唯独来自于神。那些为了公益而行治理的人，固然是神之仁慈的真实榜样，然而那些残暴治理的人，也是神兴起来为要刑罚百姓的不义。他们全都拥有神赋给一切合法权力的神圣威荣。
我要指出一些明确阐述此意思的经文（伯三十四 30；何十三11：赛三4，十5；申二十八29），然后再继续讨论。我们不需要费力证明不敬虔的君王是主忿怒的标志，因为我假定没有人会否认这一点，并且这种君王不啻是劫掠我们资财的强盗，玷污我们床榻的淫徒，和谋取我们性命的刺客，因为圣经把所有这些祸患都列在神的咒诅之中。
Institutes Book 4 Chapter20 Section25.
… that they who rule unjustly and incompetently have been raised up by him to punish the wickedness of the people; that all equally have been endowed with that holy majesty with which he has invested lawful power.
I shall proceed no farther until I have added some sure testimonies of this thing. Yet, we need not labor to prove that a wicked king is the Lord’s wrath upon the earth [Job 34:30, Vg.; Hos. 13:11; Isa. 3:4; 10:5; Deut. 28:29], for I believe no man will contradict me; and thus nothing more would be said of a king than of a robber who seizes your possessions, of an adulterer who pollutes your marriage bed, or of a murderer who seeks to kill you. For Scripture reckons all such calamities among God’s curses.
Calvin, J. (2011). Institutes of the Christian Religion & 2 (J. T. McNeill, Ed.; F. L. Battles, Trans.; Vol. 1, pp. 1512–1513). Westminster John Knox Press.
