Join us at Ligonier Ministries' 2009 National Conference to study the holiness of God and for a mini-conference on the life and influence of John Calvin, whose 500th birthday we celebrate in 2009.
Derek Thomas on "Who was John Calvin?"
On Feb. 26, 1564, Calvin gave his last lecture from a portion of Ezekiel 20. His final sermon had been given a few weeks earlier, on Feb. 6. He made visits to church meetings during the next few weeks, participating in the Lord’s Supper on Easter Sunday (April 2). On April 25, Calvin dictated his will to a notary. It gave expression to his belief that he had served the Lord as he had been given ability. Two days later, he bade farewell to the syndics and the members of the Little Council, they having come to his home for the purpose. He died on May 27 and was buried the following day at 2 in the afternoon, “wrapped in a shroud and encased in a plain wooden coffin, without pomp or elaborate ceremony . . . his grave marked by a simple mound like that of his humbler associates in death,” in accord with his own wishes.
Calvin’s life was over, but he left behind hundreds of sermons, commentaries on almost the whole Bible, a theology textbook that remains definitive, countless tracts and letters, and much more than these, a life lived wholeheartedly for God.
Excerpt taken from John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology, edited by Burk Parsons.
Read Celebrating 500 Years of John Calvin, Part 1
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Read Celebrating 500 Years of John Calvin, Part 4
Read Celebrating 500 Years of John Calvin, Part 5
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