OK, I'm going to try to read all of Calvin's Institutes
I will read all of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion now, cover to cover. One thing that caught my attention in a lecture on the book was Calvin's carefulness in the arrangement and progression of the material. The intentionalness of it, and how he reworked the arrangement alot to get it just right. From this angle it's very interesting to read it beginning to end. The book is very psychological (like the Work). This is really what makes it a work of classic literature. Calvin had an on-the-mark understanding of universal human nature and the ways of the world. But when you read the first chapter and think about it from the angle that Calvin introduced that particular thought, or idea, right at the beginning it is interesting to see that he is saying that particular thing about human nature is the most foundational thing to see or understanding (or it is the first thing a person needs to see in themselves) regarding all the rest of the material involving awakening and faith and so on.
UPDATE: Maybe, maybe I will. I'll tell you after I finish. Which could be six years from now...

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