JETS 51:3 (September 2008) p. 572 the historical context for why Calvin ordered the Institutes the way that he did. Making these errors causes one to establish an ordo for Calvin that does not take into account his specific explanations for the relationships of various doctrines to one another. If indeed Book 3 is to function as an actual ordo salutis, then Calvin actually believes that God sanctifies people before he justifies them. This flies in the face of even Johnson’s arguments for the simultaneity