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Calvin's Institutes: February 14
Life without providence is a life haunted by fear—but life under God’s providence is marked by unshakable peace. In Book 1, Chapter 17, Sections 10–14, Calvin contrasts the misery of imagining a world ruled by chance with the deep consolation of knowing that every danger, delay, and deliverance is held within the wise and steady hand of God (Psalm 91:2–6; Psalm 31:15). He shows that Scripture’s language of divine “repentance” does not signal instability in God, but mercy expressed in human terms—God’s threats are not revisions of his will, but instruments by which he calls sinners to…
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