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For generations, the terms “Calvinist” and “Calvinism” has been used to bolster arguments and blame opponents. The translator of this volume, Henry Cole, laments the ways Calvin’s theology has been used by those who misunderstand him or, even worse, don’t read him. Cole writes that there are “almost as many different shades, phases, kinds, and degrees of Calvinism as there are Calvinists.” Cole...

difference, lessens, as much as in him lies, the glory of that mercy? Those, most certainly, are the farthest from glorifying the grace of God, according to its greatness, who declare, that it is, indeed, common to all men; but that it rests effectually in them, because they have embraced it by faith. The cause of faith itself, however, they would keep buried, all the time, out of sight; which is this;—that the children of God, who are chosen to be sons, are afterwards blessed with the spirit of
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