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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
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[43] Instead of the concluding part of the sentence beginning “though rather,” &c., and stopping at the reference, the Ed.
1536 simply continues the quotation “odor vitae in vitam iis qui salvi sunt.”
[44] Instead of “Rex” simply, the E. 1536 has “magnanime Rex.”
[45] In Ed. 1536, “Rex magnificentissime”
[46] The words, “qui tanta securitate nunc exsultant,” not in Ed. 1536.
[47] The passage in brackets occurs only in the French original. The words are as follows: “Tant des ennemis manifestes de la vérité de Dieu, que de beaucoup de canailles qui se sont fourrez en son Eglise: tant des Moines qui ont apporté leurs frocs hors de leurs cloistres pour infecter le lieu o˜ ils venoyent, que d’autres vilains qui ne valent pas mieux qu’eux.”
[48] The words in the French are, “Avec trop grande facilité; ce qui monstroit que beaucoup de mechans hypocrites, faisans profession de l’Evangile, eussent bien voulu qu’ainsi fust.” With too great facility; showing that many wicked hypocrites, making profession of the gospel, would have been very glad it had been so.
CHAPTER 1. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF OURSELVES MUTUALLY CONNECTED. –NATURE OF THE CONNECTION.
[49] Judges 13:22; Isaiah 6:5; Ezek. 1:28, 3:14; Job 9:4, &c.; Gen. 17:27; 1 Kings 19:13.
CHAPTER 3. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD NATURALLY IMPLANTED IN THE HUMAN MIND.
[50] “Intelligi necesse est deos, quoniam insitas eorum vel potius innatas cognitiones habemus.–Quae nobis natura informationem deorum ipsorum dedit, eadem insculpsit in mentibus ut eos aeternos et beatos haberemus.”–Cic. de Nat. Deor. lib. 1 c. 17.–”Itaque inter omnes omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est, et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.”–Lib. 2. c. 4. See also Lact. Inst. Div. lib. 3 c. 10.
[51] Suet. Calig. c. 51.
[52] Cic. De Nat. Deor. lib. 1 c. 23. Valer. Max. lib. 1. c. 1.
CHAPTER 5. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CONSPICUOUS IN THE CREATION, AND CONTINUAL GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD.
[53] Augustinus: Astrologia magnum religiosis argumentum, tormentumque curiosis.
[54] See Aristot. Hist. Anim. lib. i. c. 17; Macrob. in Somn. Scip lib. 2 c. 12; Boeth. De Definitione.
[55] Aeneid, 6 724, sq. See Calvin on Acts 17:28 Manil. lib. 1. Astron.
[56] Dryden’s Virgil, Æneid, Book 4 1. 980-990.
[57] Georgic 4. 220. Plat. in Tim. Arist. lib. 1 De Animo. See also Metaph. lib. 1. Merc. Trismegr. in Pimandro.
[58] Dryden’s Virgil, Book 4. 1. 252-262.
[59] He maintains, in the beginning of the First Book, that nothing is produced of nothing, but that all things are formed out of certain primitive materials. He also perverts the ordinary course of generation into an argument against the existence of God. In the Fifth Book, however, he admits that the world was born and will die.
[60] Plato in Timaeos. See also Cic. De Nat. Deorum, lib. 1 ; Plut. De Philos Placitis, lib. i.
[61] Cicero : Qui deos esse dixerunt tanta sunt in varietate ac dissensione, ut eorum molestum sit enumerare sententias.–Cicero, De Nat Deorum, lib. 1 and 2. Lactant Inst. Div. lib. 1 &c.
[62] Plutarch. lib. De Iside et Osiride.
[63] Cicero, De Nat. Deor. lib. 1.
CHAPTER 6. THE NEED OF SCRIPTURE, AS A GUIDE AND TEACHER, IN COMING TO GOD AS A CREATOR.
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