Quote graphic featuring a portrait of John Calvin. Text identifies John Calvin (1509–1564), Calvin’s Commentaries. The quotation condemns injustice toward laborers, arguing that it is shameful when those who provide society’s bread suffer poverty while the powerful selfishly exploit others for their own benefit.

Calvin on James: withholding wages from farm laborers is monstrous — and common. Many employers treat others as existing solely for their benefit. Notably, this is the same Calvin whose portrait adorns profiles of people disinclined to say anything of the sort.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #calvinist #bible

Black slide with portrait of John Calvin (1509–1564), Protestant Reformer. Quote from his commentary on 2 Corinthians 8 explaining that people become tight-fisted when they anxiously calculate future needs and fear losing even a small portion of their wealth.

John Calvin—grim Reformer with a ledger for the soul—warned that we hoard by imagining every future disaster. We tremble at losing the smallest coin while others starve. Oh, the arithmetic of fear! So tell me: will you cling to your purse, or learn the grace of giving?
#calvinist #giving #christian

Is anyone else doing a chronological Bible this year? #Anglican #Christian #Lutheran #Catholic #Baptist #UnitedChurch #Presbyterian #Mennonite #Quaker #Calvinist

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The Gülen Diaspora and the Return of a Calvinist Moment in Islam In Turkey, an odd unanimity has settled in: from Erdoğanists to segments of the secular left, people speak about the Gülen movement through the language of crime—but rarely through the language of pun...

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The #Gülen Diaspora and the Return of a #Calvinist Moment in #Islam
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John Calvin, the Swiss Reformer, said Christian life must include the stranger. Outsiders lack protectors, so God stands as their guardian against hatred and abuse. Claims that caring for #immigrants robs our own miss the point.

How can you incur hatred in the defense of strangers?
#calvinist #love

EDWARD POLHILL (1622-1694?) Speculum theologiæ in Christo "The holy Man ... sets himself to do good; he doth not only do the out ward work of Charity, but he doth it readily and freely; when an object of Charity meets him, he doth not say, Go and come again, when he himself goes to the Mercy-seat, he would not have God delay or turn him off after that manner: Neither will he do so to his poor Brother, not only the command of God, but the taste; that he hath, of the Divine Grace, make him ready and free in good Works ...

Edward Polhill, an Anglican minister with #Calvinist leanings, says holiness means doing good quickly and gladly—not sending the needy away to return later, unless you’d like God to do the same to you. Grace, he says, makes you ready to act. Today we treat that as optional.
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JOSEPH BENTHAM (1593/94-1671) The Socieitie of the Saints “... even experience ... teacheth us that stones in a building support each other: That branches of a tree so draw nourishment from the stocke, that each hath sufficient sap, and proportionable to its necessity. That members of our bodies are not only careful of themselves, but of their fellowes."

Joseph Bentham , #Calvinist preacher, says Christians are branches on one vine and stones in one building—sharing life and holding each other up. That makes it strange to praise “Christian culture” while mistreating fellow believers, sometimes more faithful than ourselves. Are we connected at all?

"Fourthly, to some part of thy goods, each poor Neighbour hath an absolute right: as you may see, Deut. 14.28, 29. & 24.19, 20, 21,22. Leviticus 19.'" RICHARD YOUNGE (fl. 1640-1670) The poores advocate in 8 parts

Richard Younge, a #Calvinist pamphleteer with no sense of modern comfort, argues that every poor neighbour has a right to some of your goods—actual goods, not warm wishes. Scripture says so. Which is precisely why we start asking who deserves it, how little counts, and how fast we can build fences.

JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Calvin's Commentaries Jeremiah 22 "Was not this to know me, saith Jehovah? The Prophet [Jeremiah] shows again whence proceeded the liberty which King Jehoiakim took in luxury and superfluous display, as well as in plunder, cruelty, and oppression, even because he had cast away every care and concern for religion; for where a real knowledge of God exists, men must necessarily have regard to uprightness and moderation."

Calvin says if you know God, you don’t crush the poor. Jehoiakim did—big house, lots of cruelty, no God. And we’re like, “Let’s not mention injustice. Let’s just do piety and church.” Calvin goes, yeah… that’s not knowing God. That’s pretending.
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Last night I learnt that #Calvinist #Scotland banned #Christmas in the #17thcentury.

Both my parents were #Irish #Presbyterians of Scottish descent. They celebrated #Xmas.

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JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Calvin's Commentaries Amos “... they sold the refuse of the wheat; and when they reduced to bondage the poor, they did not feed them; they mingled filth and offscourings with the wheat, as it is wont to be done; for we know that such robbers usually do this, when want presses upon the common people; they sell barley for wheat, and for barley they sell chaff and refuse. This kind of wrong is not new or unusual, as we learn from this passage."

John Calvin, a #Calvinist, claims from the time of Amos to his day, sellers took advantage of the poor.

But that has stopped, yes, no more need for preacher’s meddling, today, right?

How can you provide extra help when want presses upon the common people?
#poverty #business

SEBASTIAN BENEFIELD (1559-1630) Christian Conflict "Remembering that they [your servants] are men, and of the same nature with you, Job 31.14. Masters command your servants as subject to you in condition, but so that you remember thy are of the same nature with you, saith S. Ambrose"

Sebastian Benefield, #Calvinist, advises employers not to ignore worker complaints, because Job, seeing common flesh, viewed it as sin. St. Ambrose (340- 397) agreed.

Today, are employee complains a cross to bear?

How can you consider that service workers who support you are of the same flesh?

I feel like Calvin is a #Calvinist the same way that Nietzsche was a Nietzschean or Christ a Christian - yeah, you can assign that label, but they would not have.

John Calvin, a #Calvinist, says that by “neighbor” (Good Samaritan), God meant the whole of the human species.

A conservative preacher was saying to care about mistreatment of foreigners was to neglect your family.

How can you consider the whole of the human species?
#Christian #reformedtheology

THOMAS TAYLOR (1576-1632) THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PRACTICE "This one sin [desire to be rich] brings in a band and army of wickednesses; swells the heart with pride, deads it with security, begets a licentiousness and boldness in sinning, fills the hands with wickedness & robbery, the mouth with oaths, curses, lyes, against God and conscience, the house with bribes and riches of iniquity, the belly with bread of deceit, usury, and oppression."

Thomas Taylor was a #Calvinist, Anglican priest. He says the desire to be rich fills the heart with pride, the hands with robbery, the mouth with lies, and the belly with bread of oppressions.

Would we today, instead, celebrate “wealth creators”?

How can you protect your body and soul?
#christian

Vatikan: Papst Leo schockiert – Mann lässt im Petersdom die Hosen herunter und uriniert in Altar - WELT Der Petersdom wird immer wieder zum Schauplatz unschöner Gesten. Ein besonders krasser Fall von Vandalismus ereignete sich nun am weltberühmten Altar des Bernini-Baldachins. Der Papst will daraufhin d...

Wer war dieser Mann? Was war sein Motiv? War er ein #Nihilist? Ein #Anarchist? Ein #Protestant? Ein #Calvinist? Ein #Wahnsinniger? Ein verzweifelter Denker?

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SEBASTIAN BENEFIELD (1559-1630) Commentarie upon Amos "These two, Cruelty and Covetousness, that boundless, this insatiable, like the two daughters of the horseleech, Prov. 30.15. have been so long used to cry, Give, Give; that they will never be brought to say, It is enough. The first borne of these two, Cruelty, and Covetousness, is Oppression, that loud-crying sin, under which this our land in every corner almost groaneth: and she hath her mates too; Usury, and Extortion."

Sebastian Benefield, #Calvinist, decries cruelty and covetousness from Amos. Demands to acquire never end and lead to cruelty. Oppression, a crying sin, causes groans from every corner of his country.

Does covetousness get a free pass today?

How can you refrain from crying, Give, Give?
#christian

SEBASTIAN BENEFIELD (1559-1630) Commentarie upon Amos "The poor man, which useth any honest trade or course of life, is not to be turned out of his way: his words and actions are not to be misinterpreted. The reason of this doctrine is plain in the sixth verse of this Chapter [Amos 21: The Lord will not turn away his punishments from the offenders in this kind; from such, as turn aside or pervert, the way of the meek, and the poor."

Sebastian Benefield, #Calvinist, says do not ruin the business of a subsistence farmer or tradesperson (Amos 2:6).

Gov’t regulation might be squashing the way of the very small businessperson. But isn’t big biz doing a lot as well?

How can you protect the way of the meek, and the poor?

LOANNES CALVINVS JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Calvin's Commentaries Isaiah 58 "And indeed this is the dictate of common sense, that the hungry are deprived of their just right, if their hunger is not relieved. That sad spectacle extorts compassion even from the cruel and barbarous.“

John Calvin, a #Calvinist, on Is 58: God prefers a worship that is sharing bread. The hungry are deprived of their #rights if their hunger is not relieved. He says that even the cruel and the barbarous are moved to compassion from the sad spectacle of a starving person. But not modern evangelicals?

It's surprising how high modernist #calvinist #worldview #philosophy sounds.

Kant: interpreting experience logically gives the one true category system!
Positivism: logic gives the one true scientific method!
Van Til: all non-Christian worldviews are incoherent! 😝 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneli...

Growing up in #NewEngland, sometimes I forget how bad the rest of the country is at teaching pre #RevolutionaryWar and especially pre-colonial #USA history. I was talking to a friend from NorCal and she legit didn't know the #Puritans were a radical #Calvinist cult that got driven out of #England

JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Calvin's Commentaries Hebrews "But he [Hebrews writer] speaks not so much of the practice of hospitality as observed then by the rich; but he rather commends the miserable and the needy to be entertained, as at that time many were fugitives who left their homes for the name of Christ."

John Calvin, #Calvinist, says that entertaining strangers (Heb 13:2) wasn’t about parties, but welcoming miserable throwing parties, but about entertaining of the miserable and needy, esp. Christian refugees.

Conservatives had no love for Syrian refugees.

How can you entertain angels? #family

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Former #Calvinist Steven Hitchcock recalls: “I had only been a Christian for about a year when I was first introduced to #Calvinism.
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GUILLAME BUCANUS (d. 1603) Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word "Moreover faith receiveth, Charitie giveth and bestoweth, Charitie is begotten of faith, and not on the contrarie, faith maketh vs the sonnes of God, charitie trieth us, whether we be the sonnes of God."

Guillame Bucanus, #Calvinist, considers faith and charity.

Faith receives, charity gives. #Faith makes us the sons of God. Charity “tries” us, as 2 being sons of God.

In contrast, John Piper says Jesus will ask how much bible reading you’ve done.

How can you demonstrate that you are a son of God?

Nate's reference to C2K made me chuckle about my eclectic road. I'm #Calvinist and #TwoKingdoms, but my 2K theology came by way of #Luther. I'm a Calvinist who believes in #NaturalLaw, but my natural law theology came by way of Thomas. In every […]

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EDWARD POLHILL (1622-1694?) Speculum theologia in Christo "Piety towards God is the right Fountain of Charity towards Men."

Edward Polhill, #Calvinist, muses on 1 John 3:17. Piety to God and a Fountain of Charity towards others are intricately linked.

Few may tolerate such a linkage, objecting for different reasons.

How can you have a Fountain of Charity towards Mankind? #charity #faith #bible #piety #humanity

JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Harmony of the Law ... all those who are destitute and deprived of earthly succor, are under the guardianship and protection of God, and preserved by His hand; and thus the audacity of those is restrained, who trust that they may commit any wickedness with impunity, provided no earthly being resists them."

John Calvin, #Calvinist, says the poor are under God’s protection. Even if no earthly restraint, those who would oppress the poor should take pause.

Today, it seems we instead tell those who’d criticiize wealth creators to fear the hand of God.

How can you respond favorably to God’s Law? #asylum