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Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 1:
A New Translation by Henry Beveridge, Esq. Volume First. Edinburgh: Printed
for the Calvin Translation Society, M.DCCC.XLV-M.DCCC.XLVI. Book First: Of
the Knowledge of God the Creator
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 1:
- Table of Contents of the Electronic Version; The Original Translation's
Preface
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 2:
- Prefactory Address
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 3:
- Subject of the Present Work [Prefixed to the last Edition, published
at Geneva in 1545.]; Epistle to the Reader [Prefixed to the last Edition,
revised by the Author.]; Method and Arrangement, or Subject of the Whole
Work [From an Epitome of the Institutions, by Gasper Olevion.]
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 4:
- General Index of Chapters [All Books]
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 5:
- Begin Institutes
- Chapter 1: Connection Between the Knowledge of God and the Knowledge
of Ourselves. Nature of the connection.
- Chapter 2: What is it to Know God. Tendency of this knowledge.
- Chapter 3: The Human Mind Naturally Imbued with the Knowledge of
God
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 6:
- Chapter 4: This Knowledge stifled or corrupted, ignorantly or
maliciously.
- Chapter 5. The Knowledge of God displayed in the fabric and
constant Government of the Universe.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 7:
- Chapter 6: The need of Scripture as a Guide and Teacher in coming to
God as a Creator.
- Chapter 7: The Testimony of the Spirit necessary to give full authority
to Scripture. The impiety of pretending that the Credibility of Scripture
depends on the judgement of the Church.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 8:
- Chapter 8: The Credibility of Scripture sufficiently proved, in so
far as Natural Reason admits.
- Chapter 9: All the principles of piety subverted by fanatics who
substitute revelations for Scripture.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 9:
- Chapter 10: In Scripture, the true God opposed, exclusively, to all
the gods of the Heathen.
- Chapter 11: Impiety of attributing a visible form to God. The setting
up of Idols a revolt against the True God.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 10:
- Chapter 12: God distinguished from Idols, that He may be the
exclusive object of Worship.
- Chapter 13 (first half): The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three
Persons taught in Scripture, from the foundation of the World.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 11:
- Chapter 13 (second half)
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 12:
- Chapter 14: In the Creation of the World, and all things in it,
the True God distinguished by certain marks from fictitious gods.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 13:
- Chapter 15: State in which man was created. The Faculties of the
Soul - The Image of God - Free Will - Original Righteousness.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 14:
- Chapter 16: The World, created by God, still cherished and protected
by Him. Each and all of its parts governed by His Providence.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 15:
- Chapter 17: Use to be made of this Doctrine.
- Institutes, Vol.1: Part 16:
- Chapter 18: The instrumentality of the wicked employed by God,
while He continues free from every taint.
- (... Conclusion, Book 1)
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 2:
Book Second. Of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, As
First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to
Us Under the Gospel.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 1:
- Table of Contents (Book Second)
- Subject [On the Subject of Redemption]
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 2:
- Chapter 1: Through the fall and revolt of Adam the whole
human race made acursed and degenerate. Of original sin.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 3:
- Chapter 2: Man now deprived of freedom of will, and
miserably enslaved.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 4:
- Chapter 3: Everything proceeding from the corrupt nature of
man damnable.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 5:
- Chapter 4: How God works in the hearts of men.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 6:
- Chapter 5: The Arguments usually alleged in support of free
will refuted.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 7:
- Chapter 6: Redemption for man lost to be sought in Christ.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 8:
- Chapter 7: The Law given, not to retain a people for itself,
but to keep alive the hope of salvation in Christ until His
advent.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 9:
- Chapter 8: Exposition of the Moral Law.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 10:
- Chapter 9: Christ, though known to the Jews under the law,
yet only manifested under the gospel.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 11:
- Chapter 10: The Resemblance between the Old Testament and
the New.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 12:
- Chapter 11: The Difference between the two Testaments.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 13:
- Chapter 12: Christ, to perform the office of Mediator,
behoved to become man.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 14:
- Chapter 13: Christ clothed with the true substance of human
nature.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 15:
- Chapter 14: How two natures constitute the Person of the
Mediator.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 16:
- Chapter 15: Three things briefly to be regarded in Christ;
vis., His offices of prophet, king, and priest.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 17:
- Chapter 16: How Christ performed the office of Redeemer in
procuring our salvation. The Death, resurrection, and ascension
of Christ.
- Institutes, Vol.2: Part 18:
- Chapter 17: Christ rightly and properly said to have merited
grace and salvation for us.
- (... Conclusion, Book 2)
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 3:
Book Third. The Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. The
Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting From It.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 1:
- Table of Contents (Book Third)
- Subject [An overview of Book 3]
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 2:
- Chapter 1: The Benefits of Christ made available to us by
the secret operation of the Spirit.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 3:
- Chapter 2: Of faith. The Definition of it. Its peculiar
properties.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 4:
- Chapter 3: Regeneration by faith. Of repentence.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 5:
- Chapter 4: Pentinence, as explained in the sophistical
jargon of the Schoolmen, widely different from the purity
required by the Gospel. Of confession and satisfaction.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 6:
- Chapter 5: Of the modes of supplementing satisfaction, vis.,
indulgences and purgatory.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 7:
- Chapter 6: The Life of a Christian man. Scriptural arguments
exhorting to it.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 8:
- Chapter 7: A Summary of the Christian life. Of self-denial.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 9:
- Chapter 8: Of bearing the cross--One branch of self-denial.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 10:
- Chapter 9: Of mediating the future of life.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 11:
- Chapter 10: How to use the present life, and the comforts
of it.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 12:
- Chapter 11: Of justification by Faith. Both the name and
the reality defined.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 13:
- Chapter 12: Necessity of contemplating the judgement-seat
of God, in order to be seriously convinced of the doctrine
of gratuitous justification.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 14:
- Chapter 13: Two things to be observed in gratuitous
justification.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 15:
- Chapter 14: The Beginning of justification. In what sense
progressive.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 16:
- Chapter 15: The Boasted merit of works subversive both of
the glory of God, in bestowing righteousness, and of the
certainty of salvation.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 17:
- Chapter 16: Refutation of the caulmnies by which it is
attempted to throw odium on this doctrine.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 18:
- Chapter 17: The Promises of the Law and the Gospel
reconciled.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 19:
- Chapter 18: The Righteousness of works improperly inferred
from rewards.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 20:
- Chapter 19: Of Christian liberty.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 21:
- Chapter 20: Of prayer--a perpetual exercise of faith. The
daily benefits derived from it.
- Outline of Sections in Chapter 20
- Sections 1-9.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 22:
- Chapter 20 (continued): Sections 10-18.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 23:
- Chapter 20 (continued): Sections 19-30.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 24:
- Chapter 20 (continued): Sections 31-44.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 25:
- Chapter 20 (continued): Sections 45-52.
- Notes, Chapter 20, (End)
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 26:
- Chapter 21: Of the eternal election, by which God has
predestined some to salvation, and others to destruction.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 27:
- Chapter 22: This doctrine confirmed by proofs from Scripture.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 28:
- Chapter 23: Refutation of the caulmnies by which this
doctrine is always unjustly assailed.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 29:
- Chapter 24: Election confirmed by the calling of God. The
Reprobate bring upon themselves the righteious destruction
to which they aredoomed.
- Outline of Sections in Chapter 24
- Sections 1-9.
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 30:
- Chapter 24 (continued): Sections 10-17 (end)
- Institutes, Vol.3: Part 31:
- Chapter 25: Of the last resurrection.
- (... Conclusion, Book 3)
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 3:
Book Fourth. Of the Holy Catholic Church.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 1:
- Table of Contents, Argument
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 2:
- Chapter 1: Of the true Church. Duty of cultivating unity with
her, as the mother of all the godly.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 3:
- Chapter 2: Comparison between the false church and the true.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 4:
- Chapter 3: Of the teachers and ministers of the Church. Their
election and office.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 5:
- Chapter 4: Of the state of the primitive Church, and the mode of
government in use before the papacy.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 6:
- Chapter 5: The ancient form of government utterly corrupted by
the tyranny of the papacy.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 7:
- Chapter 6: Of the primacy of the Romish see.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 8:
- Chapter 7: Of the beginning and rise of the Romish papacy till
it attained a height by which the liberty of the church was destroyed,
and all true rule overthrown.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 9:
- Chapter 8: Of the power of the church in articles of faith. The
unbridled license of the papal church in destroying purity of
doctrine.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 10:
- Chapter 9: Of councils and their authority.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 11:
- Chapter 10: Of the power of making laws. The cruelty of the pope
and his adherents, in this respect, in tyrannically oppressing and
destroying souls.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 12:
- Chapter 11: Of the jurisdiction of the church and the abuses of
it, as exemplified in the papacy.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 13:
- Chapter 12: Of the discipline of the Church, and its principal
use in censures and excommunication.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 14:
- Chapter 13: Of vows. The miserable entanglements caused by vowing
rashly.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 15:
- Chapter 14: Of the sacraments.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 16:
- Chapter 15: Of Baptism.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 17:
- Chapter 16: Paedobaptism. Its accordance with the institution of
Christ, and the nature of the sign.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 18:
- Chapter 17 (Sections 1-25): Of the Lord's Supper, and the benefits
conferred by it.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 19:
- Chapter 17 (Sections 25-end)
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 20:
- Chapter 18: Of the Popish mass. How it not only profanes, but
annihilates the Lord's Supper.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 21:
- Chapter 19: Of the five sacraments, falsely so called. Their
spuriousness proved, and their true character explained.
- Institutes, Vol.4: Part 22:
- Chapter 20: Of civil government.
- (... Conclusion, Book 4)
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