Sourced from Calvin's massive work on the Pastoral Epistles, these selections — presented in contemporary English — on the grace of God in the gospel and the fruit that grace bears in the lives of Christian believers are as relevant today as when first written 450 years ago.

'I believe Calvin was a great instrument of God; and that he was a wise and pious man.' John Wesley

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John Calvin (1509-1564) was one of the leaders of the sixteenth-century Reformation, and is best known for his Institues of the Christian Religion. Thousands of people sat under his ministry in Strasbourg and Geneva, and his preaching in Geneva resulted in his being so highly respected that, when he died, almost the whole city attended his funeral.

Joseph Hill is Associate Professor, Emeritus, of Biblical Studies and Greek, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.