Quote of the Day: Theodore Beza

There then is the first use of the preaching of the law; to make known our innumerable faults so that in ourselves we begin to be miserable and greatly humble ourselves; in short, to beget in us the first degree of repentance which is called “contrition of heart”; this produces a full and open confession toward the Lord.

—Theodore Beza, The Christian Faith (1558), trans., James Clark (East Sussex: Christian focus Ministries Trust, 1992), 44.

Quote of the Day

We divide this Word into two principal parts or kinds: the one is called the ‘Law,’ the other the ‘Gospel.’ For all the rest can be gathered under the one or other of these two headings…Ignorance of this distinction between Law and Gospel is one of the principal sources of the abuses which corrupted and still corrupt Christianity


—Theodore Beza, The Christian Faith, 1558.