Book 3/Chapter 16 Answering slander (section 1) 1. What slanderous charge does Calvin answer next? 2. How does Calvin answer this? 3. So what is the relationship of our salvation to our works? Zeal for works (section 2) 1. Does Calvin acknowledge rewards? 2. What is our calling? Judgment according to works (section 3) 1. …
The Sum of All Piety
Book 3/Chapter 15 The sole foundation (section 5) 1. What is the sole foundation for our lives, according to Calvin? 2. What did Jesus not come to do? 3. If Christ is all, what follows? Death and life (section 6) 1. What are those in the state of death unable to do? Mother of errors …
The Problem With Merit
Book 3/Chapter 15 The main thing (section 1) 1. For Calvin, what is justification by faith alone? A pernicious word (section 2) 1. What problem does Calvin have with the use of the word merit? 2. Can someone use it without corrupting the gospel? Merit or good works (section 3)? 1. If we don’t use …
All I Have Around Here is Kindling
Not sure what the cause of my lollygagging was, but I just now got around to reading Scott Clark’s gentle rebuke of John Piper, for the sin of having anything to do with me. You can read that rebuke here. If you want, you can slog through all the comments (which I didn’t quite get …
Four Causes
Book 3/Chapter 14 No supererogation (section 15) 1. What is the only kind of supererogation that Calvin allows? Two plagues (section 16) 1. What are the two plagues that we must banish from our minds? Four causes (section 17) 1. What are the four causes of our salvation? 2. What is not included in this …
Above and Beyond?
Book 3/Chapter 14 Hatred of externals only (section 8) 1. What does the Lord abominate? 2. What is man in his highest moral splendor? 3. What is the first foundation? True believers (section 9) 1. What happens in believers each day? 2. What are our best works mixed with? Just one sin (section 10) 1. …
Different Categories of Men
Book 3/Chapter 14 Four classes (section 1) 1. What are the four classes of men outlined by Calvin? Virtues of pagans (section 2) 1. How does Calvin account for pagan virtues, where they exist? 2. Does he lump pagan vice and virtue all together? 3. What kind of blessing does God give such men? True …
Gladness in Prayer
Book 3/Chapter 13 Glory undiminished (section 1) 1. What two things does Calvin aim at in this section? 2. Who rises up against God? The praise of righteousness (section 2) 1. Where must the praise of righteousness remain? Unsettled peace (section 3) 1. How may a guilty conscience be quieted before God? Voiding the promise …
No Preening
Book 3/Chapter 12 Away with preening (section 5) 1. We must consider ourselves without what two things? 2. What is there a need to strip bare? What humility is not (section 6) 1. What does Calvin refuse to identify as humility? 2. What must you do if you want to be exalted with the humble? …
Standing in the Right Place
Book 3/Chapter 12 God’s tribunal (section 1) 1. What happens when we evaluate ourselves before an earthly tribunal? 2. What do we miss until we come into the presence of God? Righteousness before men (section 2) 1. How may we come out ahead in moral comparisons of ourselves? Devout writers (section 3) 1. Who are …