Sublime

believers walk in the Spirit, who now dwells in them—and his indwelling, not the written law, rules and guides the Christian’s life. But this gave a less than satisfactory explanation of why it is that the Spirit is said to write the law on our hearts and minds in regeneration.

The message of part 1 of the Marrow sought to echo Paul’s emphasis that where sin abounds, grace super-abounds, and that there are no qualifications for coming to Christ.

The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose. The aversion to naming the Church after a man gave rise to the fact that though in France the Protestants were called “Huguenots,” in the Netherlands “Beggars,” in Great Britain “Puritans” and “Presbyterians,” and in North America

“It appears that universal atonement, or redemption, is not taught here, neither by our author [i.e., of the Marrow].”

one cannot help feeling that there was a loss of the genius of Calvin’s life project of producing commentaries on the text of Scripture and developing and perfecting the Institutes as a companion to Scripture.

Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.