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 troubles?
Not Stoicism (section 9)
1. What is the distinction between what Calvin urges here and Stoicism?
2. What does Calvin identify as the Stoic’s problem?
3. What does Calvin call a contemporary form of neo-Stoicism?
Real sorrow (section 10)
1. Why was the apostle Peter pulled apart by a double will at his martyrdom, according to Calvin?
2. What do we do at the funerals of our dear ones?
Fatalism v. faith (section 11)
1. What reason for submitting does fatalism give?
2. What reason does Calvin give?
These are the questions for the readings for Wednesday, June 17, and those readings can be found here.