Emily K’s Reviews > Institutes of the Christian Religion: The First English Version of the 1541 French Edition > Status Update

Finished the chapters on Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Both very helpful chapters. Here is one of my favorite quotes from this section:
"All we must do is hunger for Jesus Christ, seek Him, look to Him, learn from Him and keep hold of Him until the great day comes when our Lord will fully manifest the glory of His kingdom, and will openly show Himself to us that we may see Him as He is."

Chapter 9 on prayer. I loved this chapter. He did an excellent job of going through each part of the Lord's prayer. It was very helpful.

Predestination and Providence of God chapter. Probably one of my favorite chapters so far. I thought Calvin did a great job of explaining this.

"Since your salvation is grounded wholly in God, why would you want to fall back upon yourself?"

Chapter on Similarities and Differences between the Old and New Testaments.

Chapter 6 Justification by Faith and the Merits of Works.

"We are justified in God's sight solely through the righteousness of Christ."

Finished the chapter on Repentance. Good chapter, Calvin does a great job of walking you through the definition, the supporting Scriptures, and arguments against common misconceptions and misbeliefs about a subject.

"Can true repentance exist without faith? Not at all!"

Finished Ch 3 on The Law. This was a very helpful but short breakdown of each of the commandments.

"Evil desires are so hidden and twisted that they readily deceive man's sight." On why we need the 10 Commandments.

2nd chapter done (The Knowledge of Man and Free Will). Excellent chapter.

"Man cannot turn to God nor remain in Him except by His grace. All that man is able to do is done by grace." Page 79

Chapter 1:
"The whole sum of our wisdom-wisdom that is, which deserves to be called true and assured- broadly consists of two parts, knowledge of God and knowledge of ourselves."