Book 4/Chapter 11 Bishops or princes (section 9)? 1. What does Calvin call the assumption of the power of the sword by bishops? 2. Where did the Lord prohibit such power to the church? How it happened (section 10) 1. How did bishops gain this power? 2. But what would they do if they had …
Opulence and Proud Titles
Book 4/Chapter 11 Priest and king (section 4) 1. What is not fitting? 2. Where is a good emperor? The aim of discipline (section 5) 1. What is the aim of ecclesiastical discipline? 2. What two things must be taken into account? Ancient elders (section 6) 1. What limits did Cyprian put on his authority? …
Binding and Loosing
Book 4/Chapter 11 Power of the keys (section 1) 1. What is the next part of ecclesiastical power? 2. Where does Calvin say the New Testament gives the church the authority to rule? 3. What does this authority rest upon? Binding and loosing (section 2) 1. What distinction does Calvin make between the binding and …
Holy Laws
Book 4/Chapter 10 Bondage and freedom (section 30) 1. What are the two opposite errors when it comes to church constitutions? 2. What is the example that Calvin uses? 3. In what sense is this custom divine and in what sense human? 4. What is our best and most safe guide. Other examples (section 31) …
Extrabiblical Piety
Book 4/Chapter 19 Useless rites (section 19) 1. What are some of the accumulated customs that Calvin objected to? Free conscience (section 20) 1. Is Calvin open to certain exercises of extrabiblical piety? Acts 15 (section 21) 1. Did the Jerusalem Council establish a new law? 2. What were they requiring? Obligation to weaker brethren …
Adding and Subtracting
Book 4/Chapter 10 Corruption of ceremonies (section 15) 1. How does God accept the works of the law which we do? 2. Ceremonies are corrupt and harmless unless what? 3. What is a cunning craftsman? 4. What does Calvin mean by this? Multitudes of ceremonies (section 16) 1. How do ceremonies obscure the clarity of …
Half Buried Under Ceremonies
Book 4/Chapter 10 Papal constitutions (section 10) 1. What examples does Calvin use to show that the Romanists have developed the same inverted values that Jesus chastised the Pharisees for? Two objections (section 11) 1. What are the two other faults that Calvin finds with the papal constitutions? Worldly wisdom (section 12) 1. What does …
Lord of the Conscience
Book 4/Chapter 10 Law and conscience (section 5) 1. How does the conscience answer to men? 2. When men frame laws, where do they not apply? No right to command (section 6) 1. What do the bishops have no right to command? Lawgivers (section 7) 1. How many lawgivers does Scripture recognize? Two reasons (section …
A Sound Conscience
Book 4/Chapter 10 Binding the conscience (section 1) 1. What do the Roman traditions do? 2. What is the point under discussion? 3. What kind of church law does Calvin not contend against? Paul’s example (section 2) 1. Why did Paul deal with this kind of issue so cautiously? What conscience is (section 3) 1. …
Fallible Councils
Book 4/Chapter 9 Fallible councils (section 11) 1. What did Leo say about Chalcedon? 2. What did Gregory of Nazianzus think of councils? No blind obedience (section 12) 1. How do we know that certain pastors must be heard and others rejected? The true weight (section 13) 1. What role then do councils have? 2. …