Harmony of the Law-Volume 1

By Calvin, John

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Title:	Harmony of the Law-Volume 1
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Calvin, B. J. (n.d.). Harmony of the Law-Volume 1. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

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Excerpt
Excerpt: Coming into the field as a Translator of Calvin so late as I do, and after the various able Preliminary Notices of my predecessors in the task, it would ill become me to offer any lengthened remarks, either generally on the personal character and theological system of our illustrious author, or more particularly on his merits as a Commentator upon Scripture. It may not, however, be deemed superfluous that I should refer my readers to the brief but interesting Memoir of Calvin, written by his associate and friend Theodore Beza, and translated by Henry Beveridge, Esq., in Volume I. of Calvin?s Tracts in this Series. It would, I presume, be scarcely possible to produce within a similar compass any Biography of the great Reformer which could at all be brought into competition with this. That the colouring of partiality may be discerned in it, the circumstances of the case would lead us to expect; but as to the main facts of his life, whilst there can be little ground for supposing Beza to be ignorant of them, so is he above the suspicion of having intentionally falsified them. ?Every reasonable person,? says Bayle ?will agree with me, that, with respect to the historical sequence of Calvin?s travels, no author is more credible than Theodore Beza when the occurrences are of such a nature as neither to injure nor enhance the glory of Calvin.? It would at any rate appear to be peculiarly unseasonable, at the present moment, to attempt any new Life of Calvin, when an announcement has recently been made of a large amount of materials having been discovered, which, when published, will probably throw much additional light on the subject. I allude to a statement of the French correspondent of the ?Evangelical Christendom? for December 1851, vol. 5, p. 494, to the following effect- ?A young man, equally distinguished by his piety and learning, M. Jules Bonnet, had been commissioned, in the reign of Louis Philippe, to collect the unpublished Letters of Calvin in the Public Libraries of France, Geneva, etc. He has found 497, of which 190 are written in the French language, and 307 in Latin. This correspondence promises the greatest interest. It commences in 1524, when Calvin was yet on the benches of the University, and continues up to 1564, the period when the illustrious Reformer died. The greater part of these letters are addressed to Farel, Melancthon, Theodore Beza, and other distinguished theologians. The French letters are written to the King of Navarre, the Duchess of Ferrara, the Prince of Conde, etc. One is addressed to the Duke of Somerset, who exercised then high authority in England, and contains twenty-three pages.?

Table of Contents
Table of Contents About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii Harmony of the Law, Part 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 Translator's Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 2 The Preface of John Calvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 7 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 10 Exodus 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 10 Exodus 1:1-7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 10 Exodus 1:8-11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 13 Exodus 1:12-14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 16 Exodus 1:15-22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17 Exodus 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 22 Exodus 2:1-10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 22 Exodus 2:11-15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 27 Exodus 2:16-22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 30 Exodus 2:23-25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34 Exodus 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35 Exodus 3:1-5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35 Exodus 3:6-9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 39 Exodus 3:10-14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 41 Exodus 3:15-17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 45 Exodus 3:18-22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 47 Exodus 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 51 Exodus 4:1-9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 51 Exodus 4:10-17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 55 Exodus 4:18-23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60 Exodus 4:24-31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 64 Exodus 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 69 Exodus 5:1-5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 69 Exodus 5:6-18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 72 Exodus 5:19-23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 75 Exodus 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 78 Exodus 6:1-8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 78 Exodus 6:9-13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 82 Exodus 6:14-30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 84 Exodus 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 88