# “The race of repentance” by John Calvin

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“The Lord is pleased completely to restore all those he adopts to the inheritance
of life. And this restoration is not accomplished in a single moment, or day, or
year; but by continual, and sometimes even tardy advances, the Lord destroys the
carnal corruptions of His chosen, purifies them from all pollution, and consecrates
them as temples to Himself; renewing all their senses to real purity, that they 
may employ their whole life in the exercise of repentance, and know that this warfare
will be terminated only by death… I assert, that as far as any man approaches to
a resemblance of God, so far the image of God is displayed in him. That believers
may attain to this, God assigns them the race of repentance to run during their 
whole life.”

–John Calvin, _Institutes of the Christian Religion_, III:iii:9, in John McNeil,
ed., Library of Christian Classics, Vol. XX, (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960),
602.

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