Book 4/Chapter 7
Later papal claims (section 19)
1. How do Romanists define the pope?
2. What do these claims “amount to”?
3. For Calvin, what is the most unbearable aspect of this?
New forgeries (section 20)
1. What is put forward by the forgeries?
2. What does Calvin say about such claims?
3. What does he call these people who are carried to this point of madness or blindness?
4. In addition to supremacy, what other claim is made on behalf of the pope?
Ancient testimonies to the contrary (section 21)
1. What does Cyprian deny?
2. What does Gregory deny?
3. What does Gregory say to the bishop of Alexandria?
The state of the papacy (section 22)
1. How does the papacy of Calvin’s day compare to previous ages?
2. What are Romanists doing when they appeal to the middle period of Gregory and Leo?
These are the questions for the readings for Friday, September 25, and those readings can be found here.