Covenant Presbyterian Church

On the occasion of John Calvin’s five hundredth birthday, we do well to recall a statement made in 1611 by the Hungarian reformer Paul Thuri, who lauded Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion in this now-famous distich: “Praeter apostolicas post Christi tempora chartas, huic peperere libro saecula nullam parem.”  He did not exaggerate.  For intellectual breadth, spiritual passion, exegetical skill, and systematic genius, “No generation after the time of Christ, except for the writings of the apostles, has ever produced the equal of this book.”  The prerequisite legal training, master