The first head occupies the first thirteen Chapters; but these may all be reduced to four, viz., I. Of the marks of the Church, or the means by which the Church may be discerned, since it is necessary to cultivate unity with the Church.
Its germ never withers away utterly and perishes . The saints cannot have a stronger ground for despair than to feel that , according to present appearances , the hand of God is armed for their destruction ; and yet Job thus declares ...
Again,itmay happen that manwith abadwill wishes what Godwills righteously, aswhena bad son wishes his fathertodie, and God also wills it. The former wishes what Godwillsnot, the latter wishes what God also wills.
With this agrees Bernard, who introduces the Church, saying, “Draw me unwilling, to make me willing; ... In his treatise De Corr. et Grat., addressed to Valentine, he treats very much at large what I shall recite briefly, but in his own ...
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The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant creed for those with some previous knowledge of theology and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by ...
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John Calvin's greatest work, published in several editions as early as 1536 and finally in this definitive edition in 1559, was intended as a theological introduction to the Bible and a vindication of the principles of the Reformation.
Newly retypeset for clarity, this volume translated by Henry Beveridge offers a more affordable edition of one of the last millennium’s must-have works. This book will appeal to libraries, seminarians, pastors, and laypeople.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The chief work of the theologian John Calvin, the institutes have set the theological framework of Calvinists and Reform thinkers for many hundreds of years.
In doing so, Calvin developed a vast introduction to the Bible that, in many respects, transcends time and place. Many of the issues Calvin addressed were timeless and universal, and this is the reason for the work's longevity.
English translation of the monumental statement of reformation faith.
Reproduction of the original: Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin