Institutes 3.2.26 — OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES.

**OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES.**

Moreover, the fear of the Lord, which is uniformly attributed to all the saints, and which, in one passage, is called “the beginning of wisdom,” in another wisdom itself, although it is one, proceeds from a twofold cause. God is entitled to the reverence of a Father and a Lord. Hence he who desires duly to worship him, will study to act the part both of an obedient son and a faithful servant. The obedience paid to God as a Father he by his prophet terms honor ; the service performed to him as a master he terms fear . “A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master. If then I be a father, where is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear?” Ps. 111:10 ; Prov. 1:7 , 9 :10, 15:24; Job 28:28 ; Mal. 1:6 .

Source

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