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About Calvin: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion

The seminal Christian work that has been called "the most important book written in the last 500 years" is finally available from OSNOVA.Features of the Kindle editionOSNOVA's Kindle edition of the acclaimed English translation by Henry Beveridge, Esq. of the Institutes of Christian Religion includes the unabridged text of John Calvin's magnum opus with the usual excellence in the formatting and arrangement that readers have come to expect from OSNOVA publications. The edition incorporates an active table of contents, a four-way-key navigation between chapters, transparent structure of the large work, and an interconnected, crosslinked navigation between all books, chapters, sections, indices and the included Bible (with Direct Verse Jump and Direct Verse Jump 2, see below). All these features make it easy to navigate to any passage of the Insitutes and return to the initial position within seconds.Calvin in his own words:Although the Holy Scriptures contain a perfect doctrine, to which nothing can be added — our Lord having been pleased therein to unfold the infinite treasures of his wisdom — still every person, not intimately acquainted with them, stands in need of some guidance and direction, as to what he ought to look for in them, that he may not wander up and down, but pursue a certain path, and so attain the end to which the Holy Spirit invites him. ... Now, this cannot be better done in writing than by treating in succession of the principal matters which are comprised in Christian philosophy.... [I]f I mistake not, I have given a summary of religion in all its parts, and digested it in an order which will make it easy for any one, who rightly comprehends it, to ascertain both what he ought chiefly to look for in Scripture, and also to what head he ought to refer whatever is contained in it.... I dare not bear too strong a testimony in [the Institutes of Christian Religion's] favour, and decla