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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

John Calvin

Excellence, Church, Doe

John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.102, Ravenio Books

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

John Calvin

Church, Faults, Heard

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

John Calvin

Practice, Church, Ancient

"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

John Calvin

Communication, Justice, Church

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 119 - 150 (Annotated Edition)”, p.166, Jazzybee Verlag

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

John Calvin

Church, May, Scripture

John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

John Calvin

Church, Conviction, Submit

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.484, Jazzybee Verlag

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

John Calvin

Church, Christianity, Institutions

This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church.

John Calvin

Son, Names, Church

"Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians" by Jean Calvin, William Pringle, Edinburgh, (p. 218), 1854.

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

John Calvin

Acknowledge Him, Promise, Church

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag