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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 4: The Age of the Reformation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Volume 4, The Age of the Reformation, Old focuses on changes in preaching due to the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. This is the pivotal volume in Old’s project, covering as it does not only what the Reformers and Counter-Reformers preached but also their reform of preaching itself. Old traces the main events and people involved in the development of preaching at...

One of the strong points of Calvin’s preaching was his constant concern for application. If Micah had preached about the responsibilities and failures of ancient Israel, Calvin was quick to draw attention to the vocation of Geneva on one hand and its failure to fulfill it on the other. If Micah had fulminated against the idolatry of Samaria, Calvin applied the warnings of the prophet against the superstitious rites purveyed by Rome. The gracious promises which God made to his people through the mouth
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