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John Calvin · 1509 – 1564

Institutes of the Christian Religion

1559 · trans. Henry Beveridge (1845) · translated from the Latin

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Contents

  1. JOHN CALVIN PRAYS PEACE AND SALVATION IN CHRIST.1
  2. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER2
  3. SUBJECT OF THE PRESENT WORK.2
  4. EPISTLE TO THE READER.2
  5. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF OURSELVES MUTUALLY CONNECTED. —NATURE OF THE CONNECTION.2
  6. WHAT IT IS TO KNOW GOD,—TENDENCY OF THIS KNOWLEDGE.3
  7. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD NATURALLY IMPLANTED IN THE HUMAN MIND.3
  8. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD STIFLED OR CORRUPTED, IGNORANTLY OR MALICIOUSLY.4
  9. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CONSPICUOUS IN THE CREATION, AND CONTINUAL GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD.4
  10. CHAPTER 6.5
  11. CHAPTER 7.5
  12. THE CREDIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE SUFFICIENTLY PROVED IN SO FAR AS NATURAL REASON ADMITS.6
  13. ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF PIETY SUBVERTED BY FANATICS, WHO SUBSTITUTE REVELATIONS FOR SCRIPTURE.7
  14. IN SCRIPTURE, THE TRUE GOD OPPOSED, EXCLUSIVELY, TO ALL THE GODS OF THE HEATHEN.7
  15. CHAPTER 11.7
  16. GOD DISTINGUISHED FROM IDOLS, THAT HE MAY BE THE EXCLUSIVE OBJECT OF WORSHIP.8
  17. CHAPTER 13.8
  18. CHAPTER 14.9
  19. CHAPTER 15.10
  20. CHAPTER 16.11
  21. USE TO BE MADE OF THE DOCTRINE OF PROVIDENCE.12
  22. CHAPTER 18.13
  23. BOOK SECOND.14
  24. CHAPTER 1.14
  25. MAN NOW DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM OF WILL, AND MISERABLY ENSLAVED.15
  26. EVERY THING PROCEEDING FROM THE CORRUPT NATURE OF MAN DAMNABLE.16
  27. HOW GOD WORKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN.17
  28. THE ARGUMENTS USUALLY ALLEGED IN SUPPORT OF FREE WILL REFUTED.18
  29. REDEMPTION FOR MAN LOST TO BE SOUGHT IN CHRIST.19
  30. CHAPTER 7.19
  31. EXPOSITION OF THE MORAL LAW.20
  32. First Commandment.20
  33. THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.21
  34. Second Commandment21
  35. THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN.22
  36. Fourth Commandment.22
  37. Fifth Commandment.23
  38. THOU SHALT NOT KILL.23
  39. THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.23
  40. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.24
  41. THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR.24
  42. Tenth Commandment.24
  43. CHAPTER 9.25
  44. THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW.26
  45. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO TESTAMENTS.27
  46. CHRIST, TO PERFORM THE OFFICE OF MEDIATOR, BEHOVED TO BECOME MAN.28
  47. CHRIST CLOTHED WITH THE TRUE SUBSTANCE OF HUMAN NATURE.29
  48. HOW TWO NATURES CONSTITUTE THE PERSON OF THE MEDIATOR.30
  49. CHAPTER 15.30
  50. CHAPTER 16.31
  51. CHRIST RIGHTLY AND PROPERLY SAID TO HAVE MERITED GRACE AND SALVATION FOR US.32
  52. BOOK THIRD.33
  53. CHAPTER 1.33
  54. OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES.33
  55. REGENERATION BY FAITH. OF REPENTANCE.35
  56. CHAPTER 4.36
  57. OF THE MODES OF SUPPLEMENTING SATISFACTION—VIZ. INDULGENCES AND PURGATORY.37
  58. A SUMMARY OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. OF SELF-DENIAL.38
  59. OF BEARING THE CROSS—ONE BRANCH OF SELF-DENIAL.39
  60. OF MEDITATING ON THE FUTURE LIFE.40
  61. HOW TO USE THE PRESENT LIFE, AND THE COMFORTS OF IT.41
  62. OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. BOTH THE NAME AND THE REALITY DEFINED.42
  63. CHAPTER 12.43
  64. TWO THINGS TO BE OBSERVED IN GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION.44
  65. THE BEGINNING OF JUSTIFICATION. IN WHAT SENSE PROGRESSIVE.45
  66. CHAPTER 15.46
  67. CHAPTER 16.46
  68. THE PROMISES OF THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL RECONCILED.47
  69. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF WORKS IMPROPERLY INFERRED FROM REWARDS.48
  70. OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY.49
  71. OF PRAYER—A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT.50
  72. OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN.52
  73. CHAPTER 21.53
  74. THIS DOCTRINE CONFIRMED BY PROOFS FROM SCRIPTURE.54
  75. REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH THIS DOCTRINE IS ALWAYS UNJUSTLY ASSAILED.55
  76. CHAPTER 24.56
  77. OF THE LAST RESURRECTION.57
  78. OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH58
  79. CHAPTER 1.58
  80. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FALSE CHURCH AND THE TRUE.59
  81. OF THE TEACHERS AND MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH. THEIR ELECTION AND OFFICE.60
  82. CHAPTER 4.61
  83. THE ANCIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT UTTERLY CORRUPTED BY THE TYRANNY OF THE PAPACY.62
  84. OF THE PRIMACY OF THE ROMISH SEE.63
  85. CHAPTER 7.64
  86. CHAPTER 8.65
  87. OF COUNCILS AND THEIR AUTHORITY.66
  88. CHAPTER 10.66
  89. CHAPTER 11.67
  90. OF THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH, AND ITS PRINCIPAL USE IN CENSURES AND EXCOMMUNICATION.68
  91. OF VOWS. THE MISERABLE ENTANGLEMENTS CAUSED BY VOWING RASHLY.69
  92. OF THE SACRAMENTS.70
  93. OF BAPTISM.71
  94. PÆDOBAPTISM. ITS ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF CHRIST, AND THE NATURE OF THE SIGN.72
  95. OF THE LORD'S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT.73
  96. OF THE POPISH MASS. HOW IT NOT ONLY PROFANES, BUT ANNIHILATES THE LORD'S SUPPER.75
  97. CHAPTER 19.76
  98. OF CONFIRMATION.76
  99. OF PENITENCE.77
  100. OF EXTREME UNCTION, SO CALLED.77
  101. OF ECCLESIASTICAL ORDERS.78
  102. OF MARRIAGE.79
  103. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.79
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