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John Calvin: Writings on Pastoral Piety is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume translates selected works of John Calvin (1509–1564), the great reformer of Geneva, with special emphasis on his piety.

a matter, the greatness of which does not admit of being fully unfolded. I have been accustomed to call this book, I think not inappropriately, “An Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul”; for there is not an emotion of which any one can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror. Or rather, the Holy Spirit has here drawn to the life all the griefs, sorrows, fears, doubts, hopes, cares, perplexities, in short, all the distracting emotions with which human minds are wont to be agitated.
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