John Calvin thinks we need Scripture. Chapter 6 of The Institutes of the Christian Religion is his argument for why that is, and so we commend it to you.

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Today's text comes from Henry Beveridge, who completed his translation in 1845. The Institutes was originally published in 1536.

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