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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...

well known, it does not matter who or what kind of person the messenger may be. So it ought to be enough for us to recognize the hand and the mark of our Lord in His sacraments, no matter what messenger brings them. This well refutes and destroys the Donatists’ error; they measured and valued the power and worth of the sacrament according to the worth and value of the minister. The Anabaptists today are like the Donatists. The Anabaptists deny that we have been rightly baptized because we were baptized
Pages 518–519