This man's major work opens with the argument that the knowledge of God and of ourselves is mutually connected; it then refutes arguments in favor of free will, claims that the benefits of Christ are made available "by the secret operations of the spirit," and that salvation for the elect is already predetermined.
Near the end of this religious thinker's life, he sought to interpret Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy in his The Harmony of the Law. In his Psalmic commentaries, he suggested that David knew Christ through the "Spirit of prophecy" when the latter cried out, "My god, my god, why have you forsaken me?" This man's major work opens with the argument that the knowledge of God and of ourselves is mutually connected; it then refutes arguments in favor of free will, claims that the benefits of Christ are made available "by the secret operations of the spirit," and that salvation for the elect is already predetermined. For 10 points, identify this religious thinker who set forth the tenets of a namesake Protestant sect in The Institutes of the Christian Religion and set up in Geneva.
Near the end of this religious thinker's life, he sought to interpret Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy in his The Harmony of the Law.
John Calvin [or Jean Chauvin]