"It is doubted whether any other work of the same compass presents so clearly and forcibly the truth of God as to the Nature, Truth, Perfection, Matter, and Extent of the Satisfaction made by the blessed Saviour. The lucid arrangement of topics, compact argumentation, fairness of statement, and constant appeal to the law and the testimony, leave the careful reader little to desire," states the Preface.

"As a public teacher," this great Genevan professor "was faithful and undaunted, daily inflicting blows upon Popery, Socinianism (liberalism) and Arminianism." He has been called "the best expounder of the doctrine of the Reformed Church," by Samuel Alexander, and both Charles Hodge and R.L. Dabney assigned his Institutes to their students. (His Institutes are now, for the first time, in print in English; see our book section).

This book was translated from the Latin by James R. Willson.