Thursday, February 5, 2009 • 11:17 am
In Recognition of the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of John Calvin, Banner of Truth is Pleased to Release
Tracts and Letters of John Calvin – 7 Volume Set
Author : John Calvin
Special Offer Price: $ 80.00 – List Price: $170.00
ISBN#: 9780851519876
Binding: Clothbound
Page Count : 7 Volume Set
Description: Long unavailable the republication of Calvin’s Tracts and Letters will delight all who have come to delight in the writings of the sixteenth-century reformer of Geneva.
3 Vols of Tracts
Three volumes of Tracts comprise some of Calvin’s most important writings. Volume 1 begins with the Life of Calvin written by his close friend and colleague, Theodore Beza. An outline of Calvin’s life and work by an eye-witness and intimate friend, it will never be entirely superseded by any other biography. There follows several miscellaneous Tracts relating to the reformation, which all have a strong bearing on the leading points at issue between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Among them is the famous exchange with Cardinal Sadaleto and The Necessity of Reforming the Church.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 • 10:02 am
John Calvin says in the first book of his Institutes of the Christian Religion,
“So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods. But should we once begin to raise our thoughts to God, and reflect what kind of being he is, and how absolute the perfection of that righteousness, and wisdom, and virtue, to which, as a standard, we are bound to be conformed, what formerly delighted us by its false show of righteousness will become polluted with the greatest iniquity; what strangely imposed upon us under the name of wisdom will disgust by its extreme folly; and what presented the appearance of virtuous energy will be condemned as the most miserable impotence. So far are those qualities in us, which seem most perfect, from corresponding to the divine purity.”
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 • 6:39 am
John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, Doxology
Publisher: Ligonier Ministries
Author: Parsons, Burk
ISBN-13: 9781567691061
Binding: Hardcover
John Calvin is often reviled as a humorless doctrinarian who preached an austere theology that twisted Scripture. In John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology, Burk Parsons and a cadre of godly pastors and scholars seek to set the record straight in honor of the 500th observance of John Calvin’s birth in 1509. The book’s nineteen succinct chapters explore aspects of Calvin’s life, ministry, and teachings, and establish his importance even for the twenty-first-century church. Contributors, in addition to Parsons, include some of the most gifted and godly Reformed leaders alive today: Derek W. H. Thomas, Sinclair B. Ferguson, D. G. Hart, Harry L. Reeder, Steven J. Lawson, W. Robert Godfrey, Phillip R. Johnson, Eric J. Read the rest of this entry »
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 • 8:31 am
The only hymn attributed to John Calvin is a sum of the complete devotion of his life.
I greet thee, who my sure Redeemer art,
My only trust and Saviour of my heart,
Who pain didst undergo for my poor sake.
I pray thee from our hearts all cares to take.
Thou art the King of mercy and of grace,
Reigning omnipotent in every place;
So come, O King, and our whole being sway;
Shine on us with the light of thy pure day.
Thou art the life by which alone we live
And all our substance and our strength receive.
Sustain us by thy faith and by thy power
And give us strength in every trying hour.
Our hope is in no other save in thee;
Our faith is built upon thy promise free.
Lord, give us peace, and make us calm and sure
That in thy strength we evermore endure.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 • 8:22 am
John Calvin wrote much on the subject of prayer. Calvin thought there should be a sincere reverence when praying. “Moved by God’s majesty,” we pray with careful thought and deep devotion. “Earnestness of soul,” “sincerity of heart,” and “pure simplicity” are “the finest rhetoric that we can bring to God,” Calvin writes. Preaching on Ephesians 6:18-19, Calvin says that our prayers must “proceed from a well-disposed and earnest mind” and should not only be made with out mouth, but also come from “the bottom of our heart.” In another sermon Calvin reminds the congregation that
We not only must serve God and call on him with only out mouth and voice, but that it is necessary that our hearts be lifted up so that our melody rises above the heavens and comes right before the majesty of God. Now it is true that to attain this, it is not necessary that the tongue labors too much. For they who have spoken not a word have sometimes really called out to God, and he has heard and answered them…He knows what we need before we ask it of him. He thus looks into our heart and gives it more attention than he does to the voice of the mouth. For there are many who cry out enough, but it is nothing more than a voice sounding in the air. All this is of no use unless the heart is touched. For if we desire that God hears us and answers our prayers, it is necessary that the heart speaks and is burning with a strong desire to pray to him and praise him.
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