I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin Quotes
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 contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
I come now to our doctrine. Many people condemn it out of prejudice, without hearing or exploring it. They are to occupied with some opinion or other that totally dulls the sharp edge of their minds. I am not going to mention the insults and even criminal acts that are imputed to us in an […]
The children of Christians are considered holy; and even though born with only one believing parent, by the apostle’s testimony they differ from the unclean seed of idoloters.
Our children, before they are born, God declares that he adopts for his own when he promised that he will be a God to us, and our seed after us. In this promise their salvation is included.
