Category Archives: John Calvin is my Homeboy

You know you’re in trouble when…

…I leave it to the ingenious expositions of them who are fond of subtleties. Calvin

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I may be ‘squishy’…

I have not read the whole of Calvin’s corpus…nor even all of his Institutes (though I sure hope to some day). But there was once a time when I did a thorough reading in Book IV on the ‘marks of … Continue reading

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Even when they suffer…

John Calvin on Isaiah 63:17… O Lord, why have You made us stray from Your ways, And hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your servants’ sake, The tribes of Your inheritance. “…believers always look at the goodness of … Continue reading

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In what prison…

“In what prison could any of us be more straitly shut up than in our own unbelief?” John Calvin

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So as to wthhold belief…

“[T]here is nothing to which mortals are more prone than to judge of God from themselves so as to withhold belief from his voice.” John Calvin

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