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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...

continual remission of sins in Him, until death, but he means that the Father gave Him to poor sinners who, wounded with a conscience cauterized by sin, sigh for the physician. To them God’s mercy is offered. On the contrary, those who, expecting to be able to act with impunity, seek and take grounds and freedom from this to sin, are only raising up God’s wrath and judgment against themselves. The second comfort that baptism produces for us is that it shows us our death (mortification) in Jesus Christ
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