Excerpt from The Presbyterian and Reformed Review: April 1899 It was only, then, in 1559 that the Institutes as we know the book was finished. Throughout the whole quarter of a century from the stay in Angouleme in 1534 to the appearance of this, its eighth edition, it was in a true sense in the making, and not until its appearance in this form was it completed. The changes it had undergone since its composition were immense - quintupling its size, revolutionizing its arrangement, changing its very purpose and proposed ...
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Excerpt from The Presbyterian and Reformed Review: April 1899 It was only, then, in 1559 that the Institutes as we know the book was finished. Throughout the whole quarter of a century from the stay in Angouleme in 1534 to the appearance of this, its eighth edition, it was in a true sense in the making, and not until its appearance in this form was it completed. The changes it had undergone since its composition were immense - quintupling its size, revolutionizing its arrangement, changing its very purpose and proposed audience. And yet through all these changes it remained in some true sense the same book, and bore in its bosom precisely the same message. In the case of others of the great writers of the Reformation period, Reuss strikingly remarks, their several publications may mark the stations of their gradual growth in knowledge or conviction: in Calvin's case the successive editions mark only stages in the perfection of his exposition of principles already firmly grasped and clearly stated - 1' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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