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The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pillar of the truth' unless she presides over the word...more

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How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?”Answer: “Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, ...more

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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

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True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

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Indeed, men who have either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom." -...more

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But the Lord often leaves his servants, not only to be annoyed by the violence of the wicked, but to be lacerated and destroyed; allows the good to la...more

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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

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We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is a kind of labyrint...more