Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume II
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors · 180 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~410,000 words · 1,927 passages
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What it is about
The second half of the 1559 Institutes, in the same English translation as the first volume.
Context and history
Here is what is most attached to Calvin's name, predestination, and one qualification is worth making: within the whole it takes up little room and is not the foundation on which everything is built. Calvin treats it as a consequence of other things, not as a starting point; it was later Calvinism that moved it to the centre of the system. Anyone coming for it will find it, but it is worth reading what stands around it too.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
For the further elucidation of this subject, let us examine what kind of righteousness can be found in men during the whole course of their lives. Let us divide them into four classes. For either they are destitute of the knowledge of God, and immerged in idolatry; or, having been initiated by the sacraments, they lead impure lives, denying God in their actions, while they confess him with their lips, and belong to Christ only in name; or they are hypocrites, concealing the iniquity of their hearts with vain disguises; or, being regenerated by the Spirit of God, they devote themselves to true holiness. In the first of these classes, judged of according to their natural characters, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot there will not be found a single spark of goodness; unless we mean to charge the Scripture with falsehood in these representations which it gives of a
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