… and lectures. I am particularly suspicious of the Supralapsarian kind as found in Calvin’s Institutes, Book III, Chap. XXIII:7 and his Articles Concerning Predestination. I reject Calvin’s studies regarding predestination and election which leave out the covenant of grace and salvation in Christ as in Calvin’s works against Pighius. Not that I care for Pighius, but two wrongs do not make a right. Concerning confronting hearers with Christ and pleading with them to believe, that …
Posts Tagged Institutes
Banner on Hypers
Nov 13
… with whom he was quarrelling, his theological pronouncements differ. In his first edition of the Institutes, Calvin takes over Zwingli’s stand. In the Consensus Tigurinus, he follows Bullinger. In his later works and church order, he reproduces Martin Bucer’s work down to headings and subheadings. On the Lord’s Supper, Calvin retracted from a Reformed stance to a quasi-Lutheran outlook. On the doctrines of grace, he left his former Hyper-Calvinism for a less severe, unclear …
Review of Amyraut Affirmed
Sep 15
… pages 18-19, he quotes Calvin’s straightforward reference to the status of the elect in Christ ( Institutes, III, I:1), explaining that Amyraut ‘closely follows’ Calvin with a ‘similar statement’. However, the alleged ‘similar statement’ is a highly ambiguous reference concerning God’s ‘two-fold will’ and ‘two-fold intention’ and ‘the idea of the atonement as a potential universal provision’ which is totally foreign to Calvin’s argument. Clifford holds that …
Welcome
Aug 17
… never have been won over by Calvinism and would certainly not have been enabled to write his Institutes. Bucer, especially, whom older writers called the Father of Calvinism, is most undeservedly neglected today.
I am not a denominational man and deplore the commonly held conception that ‘the right’ church organisation and succession are essential to salvation. The church of which I am a member is, for me, the Body of Christ, though it has a denominational tag and is ‘mixed’ …
Irresistible Grace
Sep 21
… was encouraged by Bishop Cincius and Cardinal Cervini to write against Calvin’s 1536 and 1539 Institutes. This was probably a trap as Pighius was a radical whom Rome and the Council of Trent condemned as ‘bewitched by Calvin’. Though he was intellectually sympathetic to the Reformation, he was mesmerised by pontifical pomp and believed salvation meant teamwork between God and man. He was thus considered too much of a half-way man by the papists. Pighius’s half-baked teaching is …
… pride of place alongside Melanchthon’s Loci Communes, Bullinger’s Decades, Calvin’s Institutes and Jewel’s Apology for the Church of England. Why Travers is looked upon as a Presbyterian pioneer will probably remain an unanswerable question as he neither held to the doctrines, practice, church order and discipline of the Westminster Confession and Catechisms that standardised Presbyterianism in the early Commonwealth years. To look upon the gospel as a book of discipline …
… into the desert and William Carey to Serampore. Calvin explains this in Book II, Chap 21 of his Institutes :
“The covenant of life is not preached equally to all, and among those to whom it is preached, does not always meet with the same reception. This diversity displays the unsearchable depth of the divine judgement, and is without doubt subordinate to God`s purpose of eternal election.” He argues that God, “does not adopt promiscuously to the hope of salvation, but gives to some …
… 6 of Engelsma’s book deals with Calvin’s Doctrine of the Call, basing his remarks on Institutes, Book III, Chapter XXII, Section 10. I had some difficulty here as Engelsma has developed a terminology with which I am unfamiliar. Engelsma, however, represents Calvin correctly in his insistence on preaching the gospel to all as it comes as a savour of life unto life to some and as a savour of death unto death to others. Thus all to whom one is sent, must be given the full gospel. …
… simply strove to define what plain, ordinary Calvinism was. If they had stuck to Calvin’s Institutes, they would have been better served and made better use of their time. Philip Schaff in his eight volume History of the Christian Church perhaps makes a most sensible comment when he says, “The difference between the two schools is practically worthless, and only exposes the folly of man’s daring to search the secrets of God’s eternal counsel.” Apart from the folly of …
John Gill and His Successors
Aug 17
… rejected, and despised, and become useless.’ This teaching echoes that of Calvin’s in his Institutes, Book III, chapter 21 where he explains that it is God’s good pleasure that the gospel does not come equally to all and receives the same reception and “it is plain how greatly ignorance of this principle detracts from the glory of God, and impairs true humility.” Anyone taking care to compare the 1729 Goat Yard Declaration of faith with its forerunners, good as they are, will …
