Excerpt from The Catechism of the Church of Geneva: Translated From the Latin This short paraphrase of Calvin's Epistle will show' his object, in composmg his Catechism that he de signed it to be a compendium of his religious opin ions and a standard, by which posterity might as certain, pvizat is Calvinism, and what is not. The purity of his Latin, and the symmetry of his doc trines, recommended it to the attention of the learn ed, and it was, in a short time, translated into the German, English, Rutch, Scotch, and Spanish lan guages into the Greek, by Henry Stephens, and, finally, into the Hebrew, by the learned Christian Jew', Emanuel Tremellz'us. Calvin himself pubhshed it in the French language, for the use of the Church of Geneva. This Catechism is the model after which all the subsequent Catechisms of the Reformation were formed and is an unyielding proof of the pro. Found understanding, correct judgment, and power ful talents of its author.' He so well arranged his subjects, and so correctly defined them, that, after the lapse of almost three centuries, his Catechism remains a model unimpaired and unrivalled.avo TE B F the tmjv'sm tor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.