John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion translated by Henry Beveridge. Book 1, Chapter 6.
Sections
- God gives his elect a better help to the knowledge of himself—viz. the Holy Scriptures. This he did from the very first.
- First, By oracles and visions, and the ministry of the Patriarchs. Secondly, By the promulgation of the Law, and the preaching of the Prophets. Why the doctrines of religion are committed to writing.
- This view confirmed, 1. By the depravity of our nature making it necessary in every one who would know God to have recourse to the word; 2. From those passages of the Psalms in which God is introduced as reigning.
- Another confirmation from certain direct statements in the Psalms. Lastly, From the words of our Saviour.
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I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naïve. (Romans 16:17-18)