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John Calvin (/ˈkælvɪn/; French: Jean Calvin, pronounced [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; born Jehan Cauvin: 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, aspects of which include the doctrines of predestination and of the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation, in which doctrines Calvin was influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed, Reformed Baptists and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.

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The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

Christ, Forgiveness, Mean, Sin, Suffering, Sufferings

The human heart is a factory of idols. . . Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

Mother, Heart, Idols, Everyon, Inventing

Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

Given, Heart, Mind, Promise, Toward

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

Come, Giving, Heaven, Remembrance, Responses, Truth

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

Copernicus, Holy, Scary, Venture

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,. . . it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Come, House, Kill, Light, Men

On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

Declares, Giving, Men, Perception, Understanding

No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

Forthwith, Men, Moving, Possibly, Survey, Surveys

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

Divine, Divine Will, Faith, Ignorance

Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.

Despair, Doe, Ordained, Son, Whenever

Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

Act, Children, Christian, Dedicates, Jesus, Solemn

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

Brightness, Christ, Ifs, Illuminated, Remain

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Alone, Christ, Perfection, Strive

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

Deputed, Giving, Men, Recreate, Things, Thinking

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

Conviction, God, Hence, Men, Overwhelmed, Scripture

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

Die, Jews, Misery, Pity, Rotten, Unendingly

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Acting, Foolishly, Saving, Scripture, Wish, Word

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

God, Hundred, Looks, Men, Seek

. . . nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

Formed, God, Good, Nothing, Proceed

Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.

Believe, Let, Men, Self, Taught

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