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In 1845, Henry Beveridge’s translation of the Institutes appeared, issued by the Calvin Translation Society, founded only three years earlier. Both the Allen and Beveridge translations made Calvin’s Institutes widely accessible in America, and were the standard editions during the formative period of Reformed theology in America. These were the editions used by Hodge, Warfield, Louis Berkhof, and...

the faculty of free will to consist, viz., in reason and will. It remains to see how much they attribute to each. 5. In general, they are wont to place under the free will of man only intermediate things, viz., those which pertain not to the kingdom of God, while they refer true righteousness to the special grace of God and spiritual regeneration. The author of the work, “De Vocatione Gentium,” (On the Calling of the Gentiles,1) wishing to show this, describes the will as threefold, viz., sensitive,
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