Category: Institutes of the Christian Religion
23.12.2011
They will never yield
For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care,…
27.12.2011
Does this describe you?
What is the point of asking to know anything about God without first understanding that, if God does…
28.12.2011
The Christian View of God
For, first of all, the pious mind does not devise for itself any kind of God, but looks…
28.12.2011
Herein appears the ingratitude of men
But herein appears the shameful ingratitude of men. Though they have in their own persons a factory where…
03.01.2012
The trustworthiness of that which has been delivered to us
Let it therefore be held as fixed, that those who are inwardly taught by the Holy Spirit acquiesce…
04.01.2012
How Peculiar is Scripture
How peculiarly this property belongs to Scripture appears from this, that no human writings, however skilfully composed, are…
06.01.2012
RCC and its Idols
On the Roman Catholic Church and its defense of idols (or icons if you prefer that term): John,…
26.01.2012
Calvin on Perseverance
Being forewarned of the constant presence of an enemy the most daring, the most powerful, the most crafty,…
27.01.2012
The Christian and his God
To conclude, in one word; as often as we call God the Creator of heaven and earth, let…
08.02.2012
Fate and the Christian
For we do not with the Stoics imagine a necessity consisting of a perpetual chain of causes, and…