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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
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[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.
[64] The French adds, “C’est à dire, temoignages celestes;”–that is to say, messages from heaven.
[65] Tertullian, Apologet. adv. Gentes: “Quae plenius et impressius tam ipsum quam dispositiones ejus et voluntates adiremus, instrumentum adjecit literature,” &c.
[66] The French adds, “Comme le fondement va deuant l’edifice;”–as the foundation goes before the house.
[67] The French adds,”La destournant du seul fondement qu’elle a en l’Escriture;”–diverting it from the only foundation which is has in scripture.
[68] Augustin. De Ordine, lib. 2 c. 9 “Ad discendum dupliciter movemur, auctoritate atque ratione : tempore auctoritas, re autem ratio prior est,” &c. “Itaque quamquam bonorum auctoritas imperitae multitudini videatur esse salubrior, ratio vero aptior eruditis: tamen quia nullus hominum nisi ex imperito peritus fit, &c., evenit ut omnibus bona, magna, occulta discere cupientibus, non aperiat nisi auctoritas januam,” &c. He has many other excellent things to the same effect.
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