Sundays with Jean (and Augustine)

Again, I m amazed at the gift that Augustine was to the church- and at the wealth of quotes from him to be found in Calvin. For those who think Calvin "invented" the idea of God's sovereignty, I offer this lovely Augustinian wisdom:

"We most wholesomely confess what we most correctly believe, that the God and Lord of all things, who created all things exceedingly good, and and foreknew that evil evil things would rise out of good, and also knew that it pertained to his most omnipotent goodness to bring good out of evil things rather than not to permit evil things to be...so ordained the life of angels and men that in it he might first of all shpow what free will could do, and then what the blessing of his grace and the verdict of his justice could do..."

~Jean Calvin, quoting Augustine, Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 Volume Set), III. 22.7