SolaGratia
Puritan Board Junior
Is this book a reliable source work by John Calvin? In other words, is this translation really and directly from John Calvin?
Book: Calvin's Calvinism: God's Eternal Predestination and Secret Providence together with A Brief Reply and Reply to the Slandereports by John Calvin; translated by Henry Cole. Second Edition edited by Russell J. Dykstra of the Protestant Reformed Churches in America (prca). Published by Reformed Free Publishing Association (Reformed Free Publishing Association) a publication company of the http://www.prca.org/.
I only ask because this book is mainly used by Protestant Reformed folks as proof that Calvin did not held to the idea known as common grace. And it just so happen that this book is also published by them as well, which I think in someway makes it suspicious. For example, Ron Hanko, professor at Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary only uses this book in his blog (http://common-grace-considered.blogspot.com/prca.org) to quote Calvin:
A few quotations from Calvin will lay to rest the erroneous supposition that Calvin taught a well-meant gospel offer. (This quotation and the following quotes are taken from Calvin’s Calvinism: Treatises on the Eternal Predestination of God & the Secret Providence of God [Grand Rapids: RFPA, no date.] The book is a reprint of the edition first translated into English in 1859 by Henry Cole.
Thanks.
Book: Calvin's Calvinism: God's Eternal Predestination and Secret Providence together with A Brief Reply and Reply to the Slandereports by John Calvin; translated by Henry Cole. Second Edition edited by Russell J. Dykstra of the Protestant Reformed Churches in America (prca). Published by Reformed Free Publishing Association (Reformed Free Publishing Association) a publication company of the http://www.prca.org/.
I only ask because this book is mainly used by Protestant Reformed folks as proof that Calvin did not held to the idea known as common grace. And it just so happen that this book is also published by them as well, which I think in someway makes it suspicious. For example, Ron Hanko, professor at Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary only uses this book in his blog (http://common-grace-considered.blogspot.com/prca.org) to quote Calvin:
A few quotations from Calvin will lay to rest the erroneous supposition that Calvin taught a well-meant gospel offer. (This quotation and the following quotes are taken from Calvin’s Calvinism: Treatises on the Eternal Predestination of God & the Secret Providence of God [Grand Rapids: RFPA, no date.] The book is a reprint of the edition first translated into English in 1859 by Henry Cole.
Thanks.