By Calvin, John
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The only possible way to end their wicked plots was to destroy the men themselves by a shameful death—a spectacle which grieved me very much. For although they deserved any possible punishment, I would rather have had them live safe and unharmed. And they could have done so, if they had not been wholly impervious to wise counsel. This five-year trial, hard and burdensome enough to me, was made still worse torture by the ill will of those who never ceased to attack me and my ministry with vile slanders.
In any case, Calvin's doctrine of providence, with all the thought he spent upon it, means that whether we are good or evil, whether we live or die, we are God's. The subject of providence requires a discussion of miracles. To Calvin, the miracles of the Bible were in a class by themselves. They were the work of God the Father, in praise of Christ and for the sake of the church; and the knowledge of them was the work of the Spirit. They were to Calvin the means with which God revealed himself to his people.
Jesus Christ The Commentaries contain numerous and weighty statements that we know God in Christ. " In another place, speaking of the knowledge of God among the Athenians, he says that "the Lord allowed the men of Athens to fall into extreme madness" (on Acts 17:16). Abyss, labyrinth, madness: such were words which came to Calvin's mind when he considered man's knowledge of God apart from Christ. For those who have taken up their cross for the gospel's sake, there is no knowledge of God's goodness except in the knowledge of the crucified and risen Christ.
