[Footnote A:  John Calvin was born at Noyon, Picardy, France, in 1509, and died at Geneva in 1564.  He joined the Reformation about 1528, and, having been banished from Paris, took refuge in Switzerland.  The “Institutes,” published at Basle in 1536, contain a comprehensive statement of the beliefs of that school of Protestant theology which bears Calvin’s name; and in this “Dedication” we have Calvin’s own summing up of the essentials of his creed.]

[Footnote 1:  Prov. xxix. 18.]

[Footnote 2:  Daniel ii. 34.  Isaiah xi. 4.  Psalm ii. 9.]

[Footnote 3 Rom. xii. 6.]

[Footnote 4:  Jer. ii. 13.]

[Footnote 5:  Rom. viii. 32.]

[Footnote 6:  I Tim. iv. 10.]

[Footnote 7:  John xvii, 3.]

[Footnote 8:  Rom, iv. 25.  I Cor. xv. 3, 17.]

[Footnote 9:  Isaiah i. 3.]

[Footnote 10:  Mark xvi. 20.]

[Footnote 11:  Acts xiv. 3.]

[Footnote 12:  Heb. ii. 3-4.]

[Footnote 13:  John vii. 18, viii. 50.]

[Footnote 14:  In Joan, tract. 13.]

[Footnote 15:  Matt. xxiv. 24.]

[Footnote 16:  2 Thess. ii. 9.]

[Footnote 17:  2 Cor. xi. 14.]

[Footnote 18:  Hierom. in praef.  Jerem.]

[Footnote 19:  2 Thess. ii. 10, 11.]

[Footnote 20:  i Cor. iii. 21, 23]

[Footnote 21:  Prov xxii. 28.]

[Footnote 22:  Psalm xlv. 10.]

[Footnote 23:  Acat. in lib.  II, cap. 16.  Trip.  Hist.  Amb. lib. 2, de Off. c. 28.]

[Footnote 24:  Spiridion.  Trip.  Hist. lib. 1, c. 10.]

[Footnote 25:  Trip.  Hist. lib. 8, c. 1.  August. de Opere Mon. c. 17.]

[Footnote 26:  Epiph.  Epist. ab Hier. vers.  Con.  Eliber. c. 36.]

[Footnote 27:  Amb de Abra. lib 1, c. 7.]

[Footnote 28:  Gelas.  Pap in Conc.  Rom.]

[Footnote 29:  Chrys. in 1 Cap.  Ephes.  Calix.  Papa de Cons. dist. 2.]

[Footnote 30:  Gelas. can.  Comperimus de Cons. dist. 2.  Cypr.  Epist. 2, lib. 1, de Laps.]

[Footnote 31:  August. lib. 2, de Pec.  Mer. cap. ult.]

[Footnote 32:  Apollon de quo Eccl.  Hist. lib. 5, cap. 11, 12.]

[Footnote 33:  Paphnut.  Trip.  Hist. lib. 2, c. 14.  Cypr.  Epist. 2, lib. 2.]

[Footnote 34:  Aug. cap. 2, contr.  Cresc.  Grammatic.]

[Footnote 35:  Isaiah viii. 12, 13.]

[Footnote 36:  Epist. 3, lib. 2, et in Epist. ad.  Julian, de Haeret. baptiz.]

[Footnote 37:  Matt, xxvlii. 20.]

[Footnote 38:  i Kings xix. 14, 18.]

[Footnote 39:  Contr.  Auxent.]

[Footnote 40:  2 Tim. ii. 19.]

[Footnote 41:  Exod. xxxii. 4.]

[Footnote 42:  i Kings xxii. 6, 11-23.]

[Footnote 43:  Jer. xviii. 18.]

[Footnote 44:  Jer. iv. 9.]

[Footnote 45:  Matt. xxvi. 3, 4.]

[Footnote 46:  1 Kings xviii. 17.]