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- Added on: Oct 3rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: John Calvin
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Institutes of the Christian Religion 1.4.1
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge thei...
Institutes of the Christian Religion 1.10.2
The knowledge of God, which is set before us in the Scriptures, is designed for the same purpose as that which shines in creation, viz., that we may thereby learn to worship him with perfect integrity of heart and unfeigned obedience, and also to dep...
Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.6.1
It is certain that after the fall of our first parent, no knowledge of God without a Mediator was effectual to salvation. Christ speaks not of his own age merely, but embraces all ages, when he says “This is life eternal that they might know th...
Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.22.9
Were we to make a trial of subtlety, it would not be difficult to refute the sophistry of Thomas. He maintains that the elect are in a manner predestinated to glory on account of their merits, because God predestines to give them the grace by which t...
Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.18.4
Let every man reflect for himself how hard it is not only to leave all things, but to leave and abjure one’s self. And yet this is the training by which Christ initiates his disciples, that is, all the godly. (Inst. 3.18.4) ...
Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.7.6
For until his vanity is made perfectly manifest, he is puffed up with infatuated confidence in his own powers, and never can be brought to feel their feebleness so long as he measures them by a standard of his own choice. (Inst. 2.7.6) ...
