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John Calvin was just 27 years old when the first edition of his Institutes was published in Basel in 1536. Building on the work of Erasmus and Luther, Calvin wrote with brilliance and passion of the many ways the church and its theology had been “deformed,” and he presented a case for restoring the church and theology to its pristine purity. Calvin’s “little book”—as he affectionately called...

* * 1. Nearly the whole of sacred doctrine* consists in these two parts: ‹1.1.1› knowledge of God and of ourselves.* ‹1.2.1› Surely, we ought for the present to learn the following things about God. To hold with sure faith, first that he is infinite wisdom, righteousness, goodness, mercy, truth, power and life [Baruch 3:12–14; James 1:17]. And all of these things, [43] wherever seen, come from him. [Prov. 16:4]. Secondly,
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