“Augustine compares the human will to a horse preparing to start, and God and the devil to riders. If God mounts, he, like a temperate and skillful rider, guides it calmly, urges it when too slow, reins it in when too fast, curbs its forwardness and over-action, checks its bad temper, and keeps it on the proper course; but if the devil has seized the saddle, like an ignorant and rash rider, he hurries it over broken ground, drives it into ditches, dashes it over precipices, spurs it into obstinacy or fury.”
The above is a quote from section one of this chapter, the quote was used by Calvin as he explained how God works in man’s heart.
I was listening to this chapter today on my iphone, Audible from Amazon, and thought it very useful information to post in this blog, for those who desire to know how God is working in their daily lives.
The entire chapter fit on the following 22 minute video, which is read by a different female Librivox reader than the last Calvin post; she is more understandable.
As it common in posts from the Calvin’s Institutes, the table of contents from each chapter is read first, do not mistake that for the body of the text.
STUDY RECOMMENDATIONS:
As in the last post, I recommend buying either the book or the Audible version or both for your Christian library and continued edification.
For more posts from Calvin’s work in this blog, see, Categories: Calvin’s Institutes.