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 virtue (section 3)
1. Does Calvin account these pagan virtues as true virtue?
2. What is necessary for something to be truly virtuous?
Limp on the road (section 4)
1. What illustration does Calvin take from Augustine here?
Natural condition (section 5)
1. What must we set the grace of God against?
2. Where does our first capacity for well-doing come from?
Prior condition (section 6)
1. What were we before we were sprinkled through the Spirit with the blood of Christ?
Impurity of conscience (section 7)
1. What do the two middle categories of Calvin’s four-fold division have in common?
These are the questions for the readings for Thursday, July 2, and those readings can be found here.
NB: The graph linked here has a typo, listing Chapter 14 as Chapter 13 between now and Saturday.