Institutes 4.1.22 — OF THE TRUE CHURCH. DUTY OF CULTIVATING UNITY WITH HER, AS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE

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**OF THE TRUE CHURCH. DUTY OF CULTIVATING UNITY WITH HER, AS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE GODLY.**

To impart this blessing to us, the keys have been given to the Church ( Mt. 16:19 ; 18:18). For when Christ gave the command to the apostles, and conferred the power of forgiving sins, he not merely intended that they should loose the sins of those who should be converted from impiety to the faith of Christ; French, “Ce n’a pas eté seulement afin qu’ils deliassent ceux qui si convertiroient alla foy Christienne, et qu’ils fissent cela pour une fois.”—It was not only that they might loose those who should be converted to the Christian faith, and that they should do so once for all

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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