 TRUE and substantial wisdom principally consists of two parts, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves. But, while these two branches of knowledge are so intimately connected, which of them precedes and produces the other, is not easy to...  History of the Christian Church - Page 336by Philip Schaff - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 pages
...RELIGION. BOOK I. CHAP. I. The Connexion between the Knowledge of God and the Knowledge of ourselves. I RUE and substantial wisdom principally consists of two...contemplation of God, in whom he " lives and moves:" (a) since it is evident that the talents which we possess are not from ourselves, and that our very... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1841 - 700 pages
...blame. CHAPTER I. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF OURSELVES. THUE and substantial wisdom principally consists of two...contemplation of God, in whom he " lives and moves ; " (a) since it is evident that the talents which we possess are not from ourselves, and that our... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1844 - 700 pages
...with no blame. CHAPTER I. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF OURSELVES. TRUE and substantial wisdom principally consists of...contemplation of God, in whom he " lives and moves ; " (a) since it is evident that the talents which we possess are not from ourselves, and that our... | |
 | 1860 - 664 pages
...inseparable. Or as Calvin has beautifully expressed it: " True and substantial wisdom consists principally of two parts, the knowledge of God and the knowledge...connected, which of them precedes and produces the other, it is not easy to discover. For no man can take a survey of himself, but he must immediately turn to... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - 1871 - 678 pages
...CHAPTER I. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND THE KNOWLEDGE OP OURSELVES. ALL solid wisdom consists of two parts — the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. These are the terms that must be given in order to constitute the possibility of religion. 2. Each... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1879 - 200 pages
...the Schoolmen, see Neander, Church History, vol. iv., p. 367 seq. has never wholly extinguished. " No man can take a survey of himself but he must immediately...contemplation of God, in whom he 'lives and moves ' ; since it is evident that the talents which we possess are not from ourselves, and that our very... | |
 | 1880 - 818 pages
...inseparable from their very constitution ;" a perception which sin has never wholly extinguished. " No man can take a survey of himself but he must immediately...contemplation of God, in whom he 'lives and moves;' since it is evident that the talents which we possess are not from ourselves, and that our very existence... | |
 | Princeton Theological Seminary - 1912 - 660 pages
...develop. Indeed, self-consciousness cannot be true and not develop God-consciousness. As Calvin writes, " No man can take a survey of himself but he must immediately...contemplation of God in whom he ' lives and moves '." 55 So, too, morality. Its objective obligatory ideal, its law, reveals a law giver and moral governor... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1921 - 700 pages
...no blame. CHAPTER I. 1 Ml-. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OOO AND THI KNOWLEDGE OF OURSELVES. TRUE and substantial wisdom principally consists of...take a survey of himself but he must immediately turn te the contemplation of God, in whom he " lives and moves ; " (a) since it is evident thati'the talents... | |
 | Moses Bross Thomas - 1924 - 216 pages
...TIME OF THE BOOKS THE first sentence of Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion" is as follows: "True and substantial wisdom principally consists...knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves." He then proceeds to show the intimate relation and interdependence of these two kinds of knowledge.... | |
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