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title: 'Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol. 2'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr.'
date: 1936-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Justification'
- 'Sin'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 3'
- 'Ephesians 2'
- 'Jeremiah 17'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/pears-1936-calvins-institutes-of-the-christian-religion-vol-2
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# Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol. 2

Calvin explains that human works cannot justify; true righteousness and salvation come only by God's gratuitous grace, regeneration, and faith in Christ. External virtues without Christ are corrupt.

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