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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… more →
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Institutes of the Christian Religion 1.4.1
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readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 week ago: Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascen … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 1.10.2
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 week ago: The knowledge of God, which is set before us in the Scriptures, is designed for the same purpose as … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.6.1
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 2 weeks ago: It is certain that after the fall of our first parent, no knowledge of God without a Mediator was ef … more →
But some are more equal than others
Martyn Link wrote 2 weeks ago: Book 4 Chapter 6 Section 1-17 George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegorical novel about the re … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.22.9
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readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 3 weeks ago: Were we to make a trial of subtlety, it would not be difficult to refute the sophistry of Thomas. He … more →
I was there the day the strength of Men failed
Martyn Link wrote 3 weeks ago: Book 4 Chapter 5 Section 1-19 Elrond: “Who will you look to when we’ve gone? The Dwarves … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.18.4
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 3 weeks ago: Let every man reflect for himself how hard it is not only to leave all things, but to leave and abju … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.7.6
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 3 weeks ago: For until his vanity is made perfectly manifest, he is puffed up with infatuated confidence in his o … more →
The Wonder Years
Martyn Link wrote 3 weeks ago: Book 4 Chapter 4 Section 1-15 The Wonder Years tells the story of Kevin Arnold, a likable kid who li … more →
What a piece of work is a man
Martyn Link wrote 4 weeks ago: Book 4 Chapter 3 Section 1-16 “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinit … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.14.2
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 4 weeks ago: There is a communication of “idiomata”, or properties, when Paul says, that God purchased the Church … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 4.2.6
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 month ago: Let them now go and clamour against us as heretics for having withdrawn from their Church, since the … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.3.1
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 month ago: The sum of the Gospel is, not without good reason, made to consist in repentance and forgiveness of … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.12.2
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 month ago: Who could do this unless the Son of God should also become the Son of man, and so receive what is ou … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 1.2.1
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 month ago: By piety I mean that union of reverence and love to God which the knowledge of his benefits inspires … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 2.15.3
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 month ago: Let each of us, when he hears that the kingdom of Christ is spiritual, be roused by the thought to e … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 1.17.2
readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 month ago: In the present day so many dogs tear this doctrine [Divine Providence] with envenomed teeth, or, at … more →
Institutes of the Christian Religion 3.3.9
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readcalvinsinstitutes wrote 1 month ago: Renewal is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by s … more →
The Starting Place...
baptistparson wrote 1 month ago: I want to revisit a quote I made from Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion about the … more →
