practice by uttering at the beginning of all his lectures: “May the Lord grant us so to wrestle with the secrets of His divine wisdom that our piety truly increases to His honour and to our edification.”1 He similarly concluded every lecture, which was always appropriate to the previously discussed word of Holy Scripture.2 Here we only wish to draw attention to this fact without expounding the guide to prayer which Calvin gives in his Institutes. We have set ourselves the task of extracting the kernel