This reading includes Book 1, Chapter 15 Sections 6-8, Chapter 16 Sections 1-9, and Chapter 17 Sections 1-2.
Chapter 15: State in Which Man Was Created. The Faculties of the Soul – The Image of God – Free Will – Original Righteousness
Chapter 16: The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him. Each and All of Its Parts Governed by His Providence
Chapter 17: Use to Be Made of the Doctrine of Providence
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It would not be an exaggeration to say that Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion would be among the ten most influential writings in the history of the world. It is hard for us to imagine how far Calvin had come in his time, and, if you know the thought of his day, how much he has influenced our world.
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This man, undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
