Calvinâs expository sermons to the great congregation of St Peterâs, Geneva, taken down in shorthand and then published across Europe, were among the most sought-after volumes of the sixteenth century.
In the late 1570s, translated from the French, these bulky volumes flowed through Londonâs bookshops and none was more popular than the âOne hundred Sermons on the Epistles of St Paul to Timothy and Titusâ which appeared for the first time in 1579. The public demand was understandable. First, Calvin âopened the Scripturesâ, not in these volumes for students only, but for the whole church. Second, the sermons were preaching in the full New Testament sense of the term, that is, proclamation and persuasion, with power and conviction.
These sermons are new translated from the French of 1561 by Robert White.
View an excerpt here.
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