The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously…The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously…

3 Then also that God doth claim and will have us give him an almightiness, which we ought to imagine, not such as the sophisters do feign, vain, idle, and as it were sleeping, but awaking, effectual, working and busied in continual doing: neither such a one also as is only a general beginning of a confused motion,¹ as he would command a river to flow by his appointed channels: but such a one, as is bent & ready at his particular movings. And so all they that would include Gods omnipotency within the influence of nature,² do both defraud God of his glory, and deprive them selves of most profitable doctrine, which bringeth double fruit.

3 Then also that God doth claime and will haue vs geue him an almightinesse, which we ought to imagine, not such as the sophisters doe faine, vaine, idle, and as it were sléeping, but awaking, effectuall, working and busied in continual doing: neither such a one also as is onelie a generall beginning of a confused motion,¹ as hee woulde commaunde a riuer to flowe by his appointed chanels: but such a one, as is bent & ready at his particular moouings. And so al they that would include Gods omnipotencie within the influence of nature,² doe both defraude God of his glory, and depriue them selues of most profitable doctrine, which bringeth double fruite.

1. 1Psalm. 215.•.
2. 2Psalm. 8.3. Jere. 1•.2.Psalm. 8.3. Iere. 1.2.