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...cularly in salvation and election. The Institutes are a primary reference for the system of doctrine adopted by the Reformed churches, usually called Calvinism. Book One of the Institutes treats of the knowledge of God, considered as the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of the world, and of every thing contained in it. (Summary from Wikipedia & preface)...

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...cularly in salvation and election. The Institutes are a primary reference for the system of doctrine adopted by the Reformed churches, usually called Calvinism. Book Two of the Institutes treats of the knowledge of God considered as a Redeemer in Christ, and showing man his falls conducts him to Christ the Mediator. (Summary from Wikipedia & preface) Book 1 may be found he...

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...cularly in salvation and election. The Institutes are a primary reference for the system of doctrine adopted by the Reformed churches, usually called Calvinism. Book Three of the Institutes, which contains a full exposition of the Third Part of the Apostles’ Creed, treats of the mode of procuring the grace of Christ, the benefits which we derive and the effects which follo...

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... origins which are under the influence of religious reforms (Lutheranism, Calvinism) proclaim themselves to be the result of the divine revelation, ...

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... and published their criticisms and grievances. John Calvin was one of them. Calvinism and Lutheranism spread through Europe and England and Scotla... ...me religious offshoots of the Puritan hardship cultures, that Lutheranism and Calvinism had spawned; became hated cults in Europe. Because they wor...

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...Catholics of the sixteenth century would not hear of. Alas! the victory of Calvinism will cost France more in the future than it has yet cost her; for... ...s and hu- manitarian, equality-levelling politics are, to-day, the tail of Calvinism; and, judging by the mistakes of the present power, its contempt ... ...that night of massacre, which was, unhappily, more favorable than fatal to Calvinism. At the moment when our history begins, the audacity of the new r... ...d: “Above all, no Huguenots, no Reformers, but Calvinists! Use no term but Calvinism. Alas! this is not ambition, for I am dying,— but it is necessary... ...hers and mothers and wives and children, all, all, for the sacred cause of Calvinism; nay, must we not suffer all things? Ah! Christophe, Calvin, the ... ...ing the throne to the Duc d’Alencon, whose intention it was to es- tablish Calvinism as the religion of France. Calvin, as we have already said, had o... ...death, the reward he had so deeply coveted,—the Reformation was now called Calvinism in his honor. If Le Laboureur and other sensible writers had not ... ...r renounce its project of destroying the bound- ary of the Pyrenees. Sire, Calvinism will save France by set- ting up a moral barrier between her and ... ...like the summits of mountains, and it is easy to say: ‘I’ll make an end of Calvinism; I’ll bring those Guises to task; I’ll separate from the Court of...

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...bly stern eyes. Implacable as the war then going on between the Church and Calvinism, the count’s forehead was threatening even while he slept. Many f...

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...y: a depravity according to nature.” A defini- tion which tho’ savoring of Calvinism, by no means in- volves Calvin’s dogmas as to total mankind. Evid...

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...e daughter of one of the citizen families, who were the first upholders of Calvinism, and who, thanks to their obscurity or to some compromise with He... ...with them for the rest of her life. She determined, therefore, to renounce Calvinism, in the hope that the Cardinal would extend his favor to his pros...

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...broad distinction was made by the better informed among the French between Calvinism and Protestantism or 5 The Chaplet of Pearls Lutheranism, in whi... ...Scotland rather than France as a resting-place in which to weigh be- tween Calvinism and Catholicism, was only trebly hot and fanatical. His counsel w... ...ght the day his own, when he found that almost all his argu- ments against Calvinism were equally impressed upon Berenger’s mind, but the differences ... ...p Jean de Lettes, after leading a scandalous life, had professed a sort of Calvinism, had married, and retired to Geneva, and his suc- cessor had not ... ...both of thought and deed, the in- habitants had been so unanimous in their Calvinism, and had offered such efficient resistance, as to have wrung from... ... well as in doctrines that, as he had received them, savoured as little of Calvinism as of Romanism, was not ready to espouse the Huguenot cause with ...

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...ques- tions with the intelligence of his shrewd Scottish brains. The stern Calvinism of the North was wont to consign to utter neglect the outcast bor...

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... the Knights were present. Baruch—whose name indicates pretty clearly that Calvinism still kept some hold on Issoudun—said to Max, as the wine was beg...

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...churches of the same period when chance has saved them from the ravages of Calvinism, is sur- mounted by a triglyph, above which stands a statue of th...

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...y conforming, restless and dissatisfied, by no means disposed to return to Calvinism, and yet with too 105 Yo n g e much of the old leaven in him to ...

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... Rochelle. It became necessary, therefore, to destroy this last bulwark of Calvinism—a dangerous leaven with which the ferments of civil revolt and fo...

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...riking, and entertaining views of Scripture history—a sermon, in which the Calvinism of the Kirk of Scotland was ably supported, yet made the basis of...

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...rt of the chosen. Yes, Nevil, you cannot escape from it. Papa, he preaches Calvinism in poli- tics.’ ‘We stick to men, and good men,’ the colonel flou...

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...ly under the influence of a pseudo-science as di- sastrous as the blackest Calvinism. Calvinism taught that as we are predestinately saved or damned, ... ...y saved or damned, nothing that we can do can alter our destiny. Still, as Calvinism gave the indi- vidual no clue as to whether he had drawn a lucky ...

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...ories. But Winterbourne had an old attachment for the little metropolis of Calvinism; he had been put to school there as a boy, and he had afterward g...

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...ished religion in Scotland. This Presbyterianism is directly the same with Calvinism, as it was established in France, and is now pro- fessed at Genev...

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...aria, a formidable neighbour, and which, by reason of their de- fection to Calvinism, received no protection from the Religious Peace, and had little ... ...had twice adopted the doctrines of Luther, and twice relinquished them for Calvinism. The Elector Frederick III. first abandoned the con- fession of A... ...ing drawn, as they ex- pressed it, so many fair provinces into the gulf of Calvinism, and rejecting the Roman Anti- christ only to make way for an Hel...

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... the elemental thought of duty, and man’s relation to the Highest. Such is Calvinism, Quaker- ism, Swedenborgism. The pupil takes the same delight in ... ...whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then in the Middle Age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unita... ...sanctity of Marriage among us; and an- other thinks he has found it in our Calvinism. Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he ...

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...earthly powers; but one only could be supported by central Islamism. So of Calvinism and Arminianism; you cannot call them doctrines of Protestant- is... ...s that neither excludes a man from the name of Mussulman; and, again, that Calvinism and Arminianism are doctrines within the Protestant Church—as a c...

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...mark, on the last night of his life, was after he had been arguing against Calvinism with his minister and was interrupted by an intolerable pang. “Af...

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...osed will more effectually, he is better without them. That is the theory of Calvinism; and it is held, in a mitigated form, by many who do not consid...

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...le Fritz, and would perhaps have driven him mad if that young offspring of Calvinism and Judaism had not had Frankfort for his cradle and the firm of ...

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...s crisis of self-surrender. From Catholi- cism to Lutheranism, and then to Calvinism; from that to Wesleyanism; and from this, outside of technical Ch...