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existence of moral evil. That is all awful reality. Why should God, all-powerful and all-holy, have created man, foreseeing that he would sin and be lost? why not have created him, if he created him at all, without the possibility of sinning? or why should not God cut short in the cradle that existence which if allowed to develop will, he foresees, issue in wrong and injury to others, and in the ruin of the person himself? Is there any one, whether on the Calvinistic or on the Arminian side, who can give a satisfactory answer to these questions? Calvin freely admitted that he could not reconcile God's absolute sovereignty with man's free will; but he felt himself obliged to admit and believe both; both accordingly he maintained; though it was not in his power, nor, he believed, in the power of any man, to establish a harmony between them. What he aimed at was to proceed in this solemn path as far as the lights of revelation and reason could conduct him; and when their guidance failed, when he came to the thick darkness, and stood in the presence of mysteries 412
that refused to unveil themselves to him, reverently to bow down and adore.[1] We judged it essential to give this brief account of the theology of the Institutes. The book was the chest that contained the vital forces of the Reformation. It may be likened to the living spirits that animated the wheels in the prophet's vision. The leagues, battles, and majestic movements of that age all proceeded from this center of power -- these arcana of celestial forces. It is emphatically the Reformation. The book, we have said, as it first saw the light in Basle in 1536 was small (pp. 514); it consisted of but six chapters, and was a sketch in outline of the fundamental principles of the Christian faith. The work grew into unity and strength, grandeur and completeness, by the patient and persevering touches of the author, and when completed it consisted of four books and eightyfour chapters. But as in the acorn is wrapped up all that is afterwards evolved in the full-grown oak, so in the first small edition of the Institutes were contained all the great principles which we now possess, fully developed and demonstrated, in the 413
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FROM RISE OF PROTESTANTISM IN FRANC
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held a foremost place among the cou
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quick alternations of hope and fear
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about to close and a new age to ope
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The new Pope and the new king were
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inquisitive and capacious intellect
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stood before him -- men who had rec
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salvation by grace. There rose a gr
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Wittemberg are heard ringing the kn
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Chapter 2 Farel, Briconnet, and the
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It was his father's wish that he sh
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would they lead him? Were then all
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spring among the young and ardent m
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After the doctor of Etaples no one
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it to us." But the master-actor on
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Paris during his absence. There was
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destined to remain in that holy soc
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with Francis I. opened to Briconnet
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intellect of his age, and the liter
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and although Margaret was not stron
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Chapter 3 The First Protestant Cong
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immoral and incapable cures, and th
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hunger for the bread whereof he tha
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But as yet these tempests are forbi
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might not hurt this young vine; and
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went to live at Meaux, and thus all
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Meaux." Paris knew not what it did
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the very moment when a feeble evang
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different from, and of a quality in
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we may say, fell to singing the Psa
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Calvin, alive to the mighty power o
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the doctor of Etaples. The other tr
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these associates, poisoned his dioc
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from the rage of Satan;"[8] otherwi
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men "appointed unto death," and gir
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Chapter 5 The First Martyrs of Fran
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those men whose names were written
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made confession of his faith in Chr
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Taught of the Spirit, he was "might
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the command, "Thou shalt break down
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words of the Psalm -- "Their idols
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must needs arise and leave his pala
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Chapter 6 Calvin: His Birth and Edu
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iefly to trace, was born in humble
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grounding, and acquired a polish of
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een carried off by it, and the cano
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the yet greater scholar. Mathurin C
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only low ideas. He breathed into it
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"Luther," says Bossuet, "triumphed
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one to Papal superstions). - Calvin
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schoolman or Father till far into t
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lived in the orthodox atmosphere of
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mind on the point, and the debates
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The doubts by which his soul was no
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the terrible realities which they b
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him -- not all -- but as much as he
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ead, and by-and-by he thought he co
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Vicar of Jesus Christ. This seemed
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over the faith and consciences of m
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Chapter 8 Calvin Becomes a Student
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places of the world, amid the ambit
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now rose a temple of idols. How cou
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The science of jurisprudence now be
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superiority of intellect gave him,
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eloquence, and a rare genius for ju
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dross of earth, and he was sent bac
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Chapter 9 Calvin the Evangelist, an
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their teacher. Calvin was averse to
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The monks looked with but small fav
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days, who knew only to mount their
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whose courage they could not daunt,
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from Scripture. This might have bee
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from the Place de Greve he was to p
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the Sorbonne deliver him from that
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linded the beholder to look upon --
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dying."[20] What though the roll of
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Paris, p. 382. 15. Crespin, Hist. d
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Bourges, whose name, destined to fi
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him. The Church of Pont l'Eveque, w
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escutcheon that she had the misfort
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And, indeed, in one prime quality,
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union of some, dozen of kingdoms un
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Francis resolved on making advances
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Luther raised his powerful voice ag
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and promised so much, came to nothi
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Chapter 11 The Gospel Preached in P
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acknowledged that it was right that
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Every day saw a greater crowd gathe
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filled," says the historian Crespin
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pulpits. Shouting and gesticulating
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home; As God hath commanded, let ju
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civil wars of the sixteenth century
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was, to his other qualities added t
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daunting him, his sentence, contrar
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on their breasts, and bewailing his
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was that the Sorbonne, with the hel
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scale against the sword of Pepin. A
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However, the fame he shunned did, t
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it had existed, of the chief Reform
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the listeners were becoming uneasy
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and Calvin would be on his way to t
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way to Tours, but neither did he ha
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passages. We shall have occasion to
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Etaples had never thought of discar
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Bulletin de la Soc. de l'Hist. Prot
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genius and the extent of his knowle
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enchanted by Calvin in the garden o
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surrounding provinces, and ultimate
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at this day of a city around which
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chimes of its bells have a weird an
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Calvin must sometimes have crossed
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10. In the autumn of 1869 the autho
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styled the second Paul of the Chris
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the adversaries of one another. The
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pushed on the business till at last
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had caught its spirit. He gave inst
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"In gardens," says Hallam, "which T
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were hanging like tempest on the br
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Catherine was the daughter of Loren
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Medici. She possessed, in no small
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6. Those of our readers who have vi
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Pontiff and the king terminated to
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other; the first he engrafted on Fr
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if they were not speedily sent, to
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Calvin from France and the entrance
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ecame the immediate heir to the thr
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the afternoon to the same hour next
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mounting into the horizon, and soon
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France. The. Keys and the Fleur-de-
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the echoes of the bull in which the
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ide post from Rome to Germany, and
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fought. The German Protestants were
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powerful a monarch as Francis and s
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sensation in Paris; a great event w
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priests," but to the "righteousness
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were to be abolished; in confession
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Francis now proceeded to sketch out
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III., on his accession to the Papal
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een lost. Had this compromise been
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separate ground, which presents the
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Chapter 18 First Disciples of the G
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the obedience to which he was viewe
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force to the camp of the enemy in t
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confession that Protestantism rejec
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emerge upon the world kern princely
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St. Denis, and presented himself at
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himself. Gay in disposition and imp
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weary of commending to others that
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picking up some writing or other of
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learning and their titles, and left
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Calvin not a little. It seemed stra
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he might enjoy the quiet denied him
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that did not suffer them to doubt,
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said the first party, is growing ev
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commenced. To Farel they resolved t
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world is and will be by it totally
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majestic lake -- speak of liberty a
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convulsion as would shake the natio
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woe and ruin unless it repented in
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Footnotes: 1. Felice, Hist. Prot. F
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the baseness demanded of him. Morin
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in his rear. The disciples we have
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such wickedness as this. Not a frag
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persecutor, in selecting the poor p
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Antoine, in front of the Church of
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them, and that, at any moment, his
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Margaret wept, but the fear in whic
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The men who were now fleeing from F
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Footnotes: 1. Laval., Hist. Reform.
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which was to be graced by bloody in
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The next part of the procession evo
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penitent. He was the chief mourner
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the king was to pronounce an oratio
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misdeeds you will be partakers of t
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the Church of Genevieve, where now
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innermost recesses and nooks of the
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over again, inasmuch as they come l
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conqueror.[15] Footnotes: 1. Chroni
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Chapter 22 Basle and the "Institute
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themselves when they ascended the a
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Page 377 and 378: place as President of the Church. I
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Page 381 and 382: diu negata fruerer." (Praefatio ad
Page 383 and 384: Chapter 23 The "Institutes" We shal
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Page 391 and 392: That Calvin's survey of the field o
Page 393 and 394: six chapters. During all his life a
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Page 407 and 408: Chapter 24 Calvin on Ppredestinatio
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