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his books almost the very canon to judge both doctrine and
discipline by.”
Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626).
“Calvin was an illustrious person, and never to be mentioned
without a preface of the highest honor.”
Dr. John Donne (1573–1631).
Royal Chaplain and Dean of St. Paul’s, London; distinguished as a poet
and divine.
“St. Augustin, for sharp insight and conclusive judgment in
exposition of places of Scripture, which he always makes so liquid
and pervious, hath scarce been equalled therein by any of all the
writers in the Church of God, except Calvin may have that honor,
for whom (when it concerns not points of controversy) I see the
Jesuits themselves, though they dare not name him, have a high
degree of reverence.”
Bishop Hall (1574–1656).
Works, Ill. 516.
“Reverend Calvin, whose judgment I so much honor, that I reckon
him among the best interpreters of Scripture since the Apostles left
the earth.”
Bishop Sanderson (1587–1663).
“When I began to set myself to the study of Divinity as my proper
business, Calvin’s Institutions were recommended to me, as they
generally were to all young scholars in those times, as the best and
most perfect system of Divinity, and the fittest to be laid as a
groundwork in the study of the profession. And, indeed, my
expectation was not at all ill-deemed in the study of those
Institutions.”
Richard Baxter (1615–1691).
“I know no man, since the Apostles’ days, whom I value and honor
more than Calvin, and whose judgment in all things, one with
another, I more esteem and come nearer to.”