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Calvin's Institutes: August 21

Calvin's Institutes: August 21

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Today’s Readings Podcast Description

Do general councils automatically represent the Church, and is their authority beyond question? In these sections Calvin insists that even the most solemn assembly is guided by the Spirit only when it meets in the name of Christ and remains subject to his word. The prophets repeatedly show that entire orders of priests and pastors could fall into blindness while a true Church still existed among the people. The New Testament itself warns that the greatest dangers will arise from those who claim the name of pastor. The council that condemned Christ had every external mark of authority, yet it was not the Church. Therefore discrimination is required: not every gathering of bishops is a lawful council, and not every man who calls himself a pastor is to be followed without the test of Scripture.

### Today’s Readings:

John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4, Chapter 9, Sections 1–7

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