jrdnoland
Puritan Board Freshman
This is a section from Calvin's Institutes, the prefix to the second edition 1539.
I may add, that my object in this work was to prepare and train students of theology for the study of the Sacred Volume, so that they might both have an easy introduction to it, and be able to proceed in it, with unfaltering step, seeing I have endeavoured to give such a summary of religion in all its parts, and have digested it into such an order as may make it not difficult for any one, who is rightly acquainted with it, to ascertain both what he ought principally to look for in Scripture, and also to what head he ought to refer whatever is contained in it.
For those of you that have read all or most of the institutes is the previous assertion true? Did you find Calvin's Institutes a good summary of religion in all its parts?
I've just started to read it, having only gotten through the prefix's and introductions; I'm wondering if there are any "watchouts? so to speak. It is a lengthy discourse and am just curious as to what others think of the work in its whole.
I may add, that my object in this work was to prepare and train students of theology for the study of the Sacred Volume, so that they might both have an easy introduction to it, and be able to proceed in it, with unfaltering step, seeing I have endeavoured to give such a summary of religion in all its parts, and have digested it into such an order as may make it not difficult for any one, who is rightly acquainted with it, to ascertain both what he ought principally to look for in Scripture, and also to what head he ought to refer whatever is contained in it.
For those of you that have read all or most of the institutes is the previous assertion true? Did you find Calvin's Institutes a good summary of religion in all its parts?
I've just started to read it, having only gotten through the prefix's and introductions; I'm wondering if there are any "watchouts? so to speak. It is a lengthy discourse and am just curious as to what others think of the work in its whole.