Institutes 3.4.25 — PENITENCE, AS EXPLAINED IN THE SOPHISTICAL JARGON OF THE SCHOOLMEN, WIDELY DIFFE

**PENITENCE, AS EXPLAINED IN THE SOPHISTICAL JARGON OF THE SCHOOLMEN, WIDELY DIFFERENT FROM THE PURITY REQUIRED BY THE GOSPEL. OF CONFESSION AND SATISFACTION.**

In repentance they assign the third place to satisfaction, all their absurd talk as to which can be refuted in one word. They say, See Lombard, Sent. Lib. 4 Dist 10, c. 4. C. Non suffcit. de Pœnit. C. (middle of same Dist.) C. Nullus (same Dist). See also on the subject of satisfaction, infra, s. 29, and chap. 16 sec. 4. The French adds, “aumosnes;”—alms. Isa. 3:3 ; Rom. 5:8 ; Col. 2:14 ; Tit. 3:5 . The French is, “Et ne faut pas qu’ils disent, que combien que les satisfactions en soyent moyens, neantmoins ce n’est pas en leur nom, mais au nom de Jesus Christ;”—and they must not say that though satisfactions are the means, nevertheless it is not in their name, but in the name of Jesus Christ.

Source

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