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Eric Seelye
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Read Calvin's Institutes in 2015
10 years ago

All We See Are Works of God
Not the chief evidence perhaps, but still a very important one, as Paul says in Rom 1:20. "For, as I have elsewhere said, although it is not the chief evidence for faith, yet it is the first evidence in the order of nature, to be mindful that wherever we cast our eyes, all things they meet are works of God, and at the same time to ponder with pious meditation to what end God created them." Calvin, J. (2011). Institutes of the Christian Religion & 2. (F. L. Battles, Trans., J. T. McNeill, Ed.) (Vol. 1, p. 179). Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.
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Institutes of the Christian Religion I, xiv, 20Institutes of the Christian Religion
e(c)Meanwhile let us not be ashamed to take pious delight in the works of God open and manifest in this most beautiful theater.27 cFor, as I have elsewhere said,28 although it is not the chief evidence for faith, yet it is the first evidence in the order of nature, to be mindful that wherever we cast our eyes, all things they meet are works of God, and at the same time to ponder with pious meditation to what end God created them. Therefore, that we may apprehend
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