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Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1541 French Edition is unavailable, but you can change that!

John Calvin originally wrote his famous Institutes of the Christian Religion in Latin. Beginning with the second edition of his work published in 1541, Calvin translated each new version into French, simultaneously adapting the text to suit lay audiences, shaping it subtly but clearly to teach, exhort, and encourage them. Besides reflecting a more pastoral bent on Calvin’s part, this 1541...

Now we must talk about the sacraments. We greatly need to be given some sure teaching about them by which we may learn for what purpose they were instituted and how one ought to use them. First we must understand what a sacrament is.1 It is an external sign by which our Lord represents and testifies His good will toward us to support and confirm the weakness of our faith. Otherwise it can also be defined as a witness to God’s grace made known by an external sign. By
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