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A new English translation of the Institutes by John Allen appeared in 1813, and was published in America in 1816 in New Haven, Connecticut. Allen encountered John Calvin during the preparation of his monograph, The Fathers, the Reformers, and the Public Formularies in the Church of England, and set out to update Norton’s translation. Reprints of Allen’s translation appeared in the...

proper place. For though our mind cannot conceive of God, without ascribing some worship to him; it will not be sufficient merely to apprehend, that he is the only proper object of universal worship and adoration, unless we are also persuaded that he is the fountain of all good, and seek for none but in him. This I maintain, not only because he sustains the universe, as he once made it, by his infinite power, governs it by his wisdom, preserves it by his goodness, and especially reigns over the human
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