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 Yet is that not falsely said: But God by means of his office & nature of just righteousness, findeth in us that which he may worthily hate till the guiltiness be abolished through Christ, how so ever of his goodness he loveth that in the mean time which is his own.¹

3 Yet is that not falsly sayde: But God by meanes of his office & nature of iust righteousnesse, findeth in vs that which he may worthily hate till ye guiltines be abolished through Christ, how so euer of his goodnes he loueth that in the meane tyme which is his owne.¹

1. 1•. Joh. 4.29•. Ioh. 4.29

4 This he confirmeth by the Scriptures & by Augustine, which are these.¹ The love of God is incomprehensible, and unchangeable: for he began not to love us, since the time that we were reconciled to him by the blood of his son: but before the making of the world he loved us, even before that we were any thing at all, that we might also be his children, with his only begotten son, therefore where as we are reconciled by the death of Christ, it is not so to be taken, as though the son did therefore reconcile us unto him, that he might now begin to love us, whom he hated before: for we are reconciled to him that already loved us, to whom we were enemies by reason of sin. And whether this be true or no which I do say,²