Institutes 3.16.2 — REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO THROW ODIUM ON THIS DOCT

**REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO THROW ODIUM ON THIS DOCTRINE.**

It is also most untrue that men’s minds are withdrawn from the desire of well-doing when we deprive them of the idea of merit. Here, by the way, the reader must be told that those men absurdly infer merit from reward, as I will afterwards more clearly explain. They thus infer, because ignorant of the principle that God gives no less a display of his liberality when he assigns reward to works, than when he bestows the faculty of well-doing. This topic it will be better to defer to its own place. At present, let it be sufficient merely to advert to the weakness of their objection. This may be done in two ways. All the previous sentences of this section, except the first , are omitted in the French. 1 John 5:10 , 19 ; Heb. 9:14 ; 10 29; Luke 1:74, 75 ; Rom. 6:18 ; Col. 3:1 ; Tit. 2:11 ; 1 Thess. 5:9 ; 1 Cor. 3:16 ; Eph 2:21 ; 5:8; 2 Cor. 6:16 ; 1 Thess. 4:3 , 7 ; 2 Tim. 1:9 ; Rom. 6:18 ; 1 John 4:10 ; 3:11; 1 Cor. 6:15 , 17 ; 12:12; 1 John 3:3 ; 2 Cor. 7:1 ; John 15:10 .

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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