Reformed Classics

http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–06.mp3John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion translated by Henry Beveridge. Book 1, Chapter 6. Sections God gives his elect a better help to the knowledge of himself—viz. the Holy Scriptures. This he did from the very first. First, By oracles and visions, and the ministry of the Patriarchs. Secondly, By the promulgation of the […]

http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–05.mp3This chapter consists of two parts: 1. The former, which occupies the first ten sections, divides all the works of God into two great classes, and elucidates the knowledge of God as displayed in each class. The one class is treated of in the first six, and the other in the four following sections: 2. […]

http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–04.mp3Sections. 1. The knowledge of God suppressed by ignorance, many falling away into superstition. Such persons, however, inexcusable, because their error is accompanied with pride and stubbornness. 2. Stubbornness the companion of impiety. 3. No pretext can justify superstition. This proved, first, from reason; and, secondly, from Scripture. 4. The wicked never willingly come into […]

http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–03.mp3Book 1, Chapter 3 from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. 1. The knowledge of God being manifested to all makes the reprobate without excuse. Universal belief and acknowledgement of the existence of God. 2. Objection—that religion and the belief of a Deity are the inventions of crafty politicians. Refutation of the objection. This […]

http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–02.mp3John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1, Chapter 2. 1. By the knowledge of God, I understand that by which we not only conceive that there is some God, but also apprehend what it is for our interest, and conducive to his glory, what, in short, it is befitting to know concerning him. […]

http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–01.mp3John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1, Chapter 1. 1. Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine […]