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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
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[364] See Calvin, ad Concil. Tridentini, Sess. cap. 1. ad 15
[365] For a full expositon of these passages, see infra, sec. 35-37.
[366] Job 5:17; Prov. 3:11; Heb. 12:5
[367] French, “Car l’alliance qu’il a une fois faite avec Jesus Christ et ses membres;”–For the covenant which he once made with Jesus Christ and his members.
[368] French, “Car combien les reprouvés souspirent ou grincent les dents sous les coups;”–For though the reprobate sigh or gnash their teeth under the strokes.
[369] French, “Integrité, pitié, droiture, et choses semblables;”–intregrity, pity, uprightness, and the like.
[370] It is quoted in the Decret. c. in Art. de Pœnit. Dist. 1.
CHAPTER 5. OF THE MODES OF SUPPLEMENTING SATISFACTION–VIZ. INDULGENCES AND PURGATORY.
[371] French, “Il est expedient de monstrer ici non seulement quelles sont les indul grences, comme ils en usent; mais du tout que c’est, à les prendre en leur propre et meilleure nature, sans quelque qualité ou vice accidental;”–it is expedient here to show not only what indulgences are as in use, but in themselves, taking them in their proper and best form, without any qualification or accidental vice.
[372] French. “Tellement que si on ote la fantasie de satisfaire, leur purgatorie s’en va bas;”–so that if the fancy of satisfying is taken away, down goes their purgatory.
[373] Mt. 12:32; Mark 3:28; Luke 12:10; Mt. 5:25.
[374] The French adds the following sentence: “Brief, que le passage soit regardé et prins en sa simple intelligence, et il n’y sera rien trouvé de ce qu’ils pretendent;”–In short, let the passage be looked at and taken in its simple meaning, and there will be nothing found in it of what they pretend.
[375] See August. contra Secundum Gaudentii Epistolam, cap. 23.
[376] Chrysostom, Augustine, and others ; see August, Enchirid. ad Laurent. cap 68.
[377] The French adds, “auquel nombre universel sont enclos les Apostres;”–in which universal number the Apostles are included.
[378] French, “l’exposition que font aujourdhui nos adversaires;”–the exposition which our opponents give in the present day.
[379] French, “L’Escriture raconte souventesfois et bien au long, comment les fideles ont pleuré la mort de leurs parens, et comment ils les ont ensevelis; mais qu’ils ayent prié plour eux, il n’en est nouvelles;”–Scripture relates oftentimes and at great length, how the faithful lamented the death of their relations, and how they buried them: but that they prayed for them is never hinted at.
[380] French, “Le liure qu’il à composé tout expres de cest argument, et qu’il a intitule. Du soin pour les morts, est envellopée en tant de doutes, qu’il doit suffire pour refroidir ceux qui y auroyent devotion; pour le moins en voyant qu’il ne s’aide que de conjectures bien legeres et foibles, on verra qu’on ne se doit point fort empescher d’une chose o˜ il n’y a nulle importance;”–The book which he has composed expressly on this subject, and which he has entitled, Of Care for the Dead, is enveloped in so many doubts, that it should be sufficient to cool those who are devoted to it; at least, as he supports his view only by very slight and feeble conjectures, it will be seen, that we ought not to trouble ourselves much with a matter in which there is no importance.
[381] See August. Homil. in Joann. 49. De Civitate Dei. Lib. 21 cap. 13-24.
[382] The French of the latter clause of this sentence is “et toutesfois il y aura matiere assez ample de les pourmener en cette campagne, veu qu’ils n’ont nulle couleur pour jamais;”–and yet there is ample space to travel them over this field, seeing that they have no colour of excuse, but must be convicted of being the most villanous decivers that ever were.
CHAPTER 6. THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN. SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENTS EXHORTING TO IT.
[383] The French adds, “C’est a dire, sermons populaires;”–that is to say, popular sermons.
[384] The passage in brackets is ommited in the French.
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