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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...

that you are indebted to him for your life, and that all your actions should be done with reference to him? If this be true, it certainly follows that your life is miserably corrupt, unless it be regulated by a desire of obeying him, since his will ought to be the rule of our conduct. Nor can you have a clear view of him, without discovering him to be the fountain and origin of all good. This would produce a desire of union to him, and confidence in him, if the human mind were not seduced by its
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