Institutes 3.2.4 — OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES.

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

We grant, indeed, that so long as we are pilgrims in the world faith is implicit, not only because as yet many things are hidden from us, but because, involved in the mists of error, we attain not to all. The highest wisdom, even of him who has attained the greatest perfection, is to go forward, and endeavor in a calm and teachable spirit to make further progress. Hence Paul exhorts believers to wait for further illumination in any matter in which they differ from each other, Phil. 3:15 ). See Augustin. Ep. 102 , “Si propter eos solos Christus mortuus est, qui certa intelligentia possunt ista discernera, pæne frustra in ecclesia laboramus,”&c;—If Christ died for those only who are able to discern these things with true understanding, our labour in the Church is almost in vain.

Source

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