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BOOK 1:
Chapter 1 - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF OURSELVES MUTUALLY CONNECTED. - NATURE OF THIS CONNECTION.
Chapter 2 - WHAT IT IS TO KNOW GOD,--TENDENCY OF THIS KNOWLEDGE.
Chapter 3 - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD HAS BEEN NATURALLY IMPLANTED IN THE HUMAN MIND.
Chapter 4 - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD STIFLED OR CORRUPTED, IGNORANTLY OR MALICIOUSLY.
Chapter 5 - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CONSPICUOUS IN THE CREATION, AND CONTINUAL GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD.
Chapter 6: THE NEED OF SCRIPTURE, AS A GUIDE AND TEACHER, IN COMING TO GOD AS CREATOR.
Chapter 7: THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPIRIT NECESSARY TO GIVE FULL AUTHORITY TO SCRIPTURE. THE IMPIETY OF PRETENDING THAT THE CREDIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE DEPENDS ON THE JUDGEMENT OF THE CHURCH.
Chapter 8. THE CREDIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE SUFFICIENTLY PROVED IN SO FAR AS NATURAL REASON ADMITS.
9. ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF PIETY SUBVERTED BY FANATICS, WHO SUBSTITUTE REVELEVATIONS FOR SCRIPTURE.
1 posted on 02/19/2003 11:05:28 AM PST by ksen
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To: RnMomof7; Corin Stormhands; Jean Chauvin; Penny1; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; CCWoody; Wrigley
Here is chapter 10. Are we getting burned out yet?
2 posted on 02/19/2003 11:08:23 AM PST by ksen (HHD)
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To: RnMomof7; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Wrigley; Corin Stormhands; Penny1
I am not now adverting to the peculiar covenant by which God distinguished the race of Abraham from the rest of the nations.

I'm FINALLY getting around to actually reading this chapter.

Would Calvin be considered a Covenant Theologian? IOW, would Calvin preach that Israel has been set aside and that the Church is now the inheritor of all the promises?

19 posted on 03/06/2003 9:50:00 AM PST by ksen (HHD)
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To: RnMomof7
Well, all in all this chapter just seems to be a recap of the previous 9. Calvin reiterates that God is known by His Creation, and God is more perfetly known through the witness of the Spirit in the Scriptures.
20 posted on 03/06/2003 10:23:27 AM PST by ksen (HHD)
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