Book 3/Chapter 8 Suffering persecution (section 7) 1. What is the special badge of God’s soldiery? 2. What phrase makes you wonder about the American founders’ familiarity with Calvin? Consolation in God (section 8) 1. Does the believer shrug suffering off as though it were nothing? 2. What does the believer do with his bitter …
The Point of Affliction
Book 3/Chapter 8 Bearing the cross (section 1) 1. If we have been adopted by the Lord, what should we be prepared for? 2. Was the Lord exempt from this in His life? Leading us to trust (section 2) 1. Why does God subject us to this kind of thing? Learning endurance (section 3) 1. …
Faith in Adversity
Book 3/Chapter 7 True sincerity (section 7) 1. For Calvin, are loving actions sufficient? 2. How can liberal actions be made reprehensible? 3. When we give to the downtrodden, what must we experience? Devotion to his will (section 8) 1. When we learn self-denial, what two things form in us? 2. Our fear of what …
The Lord’s Placeholder
Book 3/Chapter 7 Right toward others (section 4) 1. What relation does self-denial have to our fellow men and to God? 2. What happens when we rush into self-love? 3. What does each person find within his breast through self-flattery? Helpfulness (section 5) 1. What will keep you from accomplishing anything in this life? 2. …
Setting Self Aside
Book 3/Chapter 7 Owned by another (section 1) 1. What is the central principle to remember in Christian living? 2. What must reason give way to with regard to submission? True devotion (section 2) 1. What does godly self-denial lead to? 2. What happens when virtue is pursued for its own sake? Self-denial (section 3) …
The Bond of Holiness
Book 3/Chapter 6 Christian life (section 1) 1. What is the object of regeneration? 2. What is one danger for those who heartily repent? 3. What is different between the teaching of the Holy Spirit and the teaching of moral philosophers? Two main aspects (section 2) 1. What are the two main aspects of scriptural …
Saved As Through Fire
Book 3/Chapter 5 The crucial passage (section 9) 1. What passage in Paul was considered by Calvin to be crucial to the purgatory debate? 2. How does Calvin handle this passage? 3. And what class of men does this testing come upon? The fathers (section 10) 1. Does Calvin acknowledge that many of the fathers …
Calvin and Purgatory
Book 3/Chapter 5 Indulgences and the unity of redemption (section 5) 1. What does the practice of offering indulgences do to the redemption of Christ? Purgatory (section 6) 1. What destroys the notion of purgatory before it is even discussed? 2. Could the idea of purgatory be a trifle not worth discussing at all? Proofs …
Making Christ a Saintlet
Book 3/Chapter 5 Indulgences (section 1) 1. From which doctrine does the practice of granting indulgences flow? 2. Does Calvin want to argue with the men who advance these notions? Root and fruit (section 2) 1. What do many people see, and what do they miss? 2. What do indulgences establish? Fathers against indulgences (section …
Past and Future
Book 3/Chapter 4 Orientation (section 33) 1. What is the difference between discipline and punishment with respect to time? 2. While we as children of God are afflicted, what is it for? Not to lose heart (section 34) 1. Why must believers be exhorted not to lose heart? David’s discipline (section 35) 1. Why was …