Prefatory Material

Book First
Of The Knowledge Of God The Creator

Chapter 1
The Knowledge Of God And Of Ourselves Mutually Connected. — Nature Of The Connection.

Chapter 2
What It Is To Know God, — Tendency Of This Knowledge.

Chapter 3
The Knowledge Of God Naturally Implanted In The Human Mind.

Chapter 4
The Knowledge Of God Stifled Or Corrupted, Ignorantly Or Maliciously.

Chapter 5
The Knowledge Of God Conspicuous In The Creation, And Continual Government Of The World.

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 Judgment Of The Church.

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.

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 Defection From The True God.

Chapter 12
God Distinguished From Idols, That He May Be The Exclusive Object Of Worship.

Chapter 13
The Unity Of The Divine Essence In Three Persons Taught, In Scripture, From The Foundation Of The World.

Chapter 14
In The Creation Of The World, And All Things In It, The True God Distinguished By Certain Marks From Fictitious Gods.

Chapter 15
State In Which Man Was Created. The Faculties Of The Soul — The Image Of God — Free Will — Original Righteousness

Chapter 16
The World, Created By God, Still Cherished And Protected By Him. Each And All Of Its Parts Governed By His Providence.

Chapter 17
Use To Be Made Of The Doctrine Of Providence.

Chapter 18
The Instrumentality Of The Wicked Employed By God, While He Continues Free From Every Taint

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.

Argument.

Chapter 1
Through The Fall And Revolt Of Adam, The Whole Human Race Made Accursed And Degenerate. Of Original Sin.

Chapter 2
Man Now Deprived Of Freedom Of Will, And Miserably Enslaved.

Chapter 3
Every Thing Proceeding From The Corrupt Nature Of Man Damnable.

Chapter 4
How God Works In The Hearts Of Men.

Chapter 5
The Arguments Usually Alleged In Support Of Free Will Refuted.

Chapter 6
Redemption For Man Lost To Be Sought In Christ.

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.

Chapter 8
Exposition Of The Moral Law.

Chapter 9
Christ, Though Known To The Jews Under The Law, Yet Only Manifested Under The Gospel.

Chapter 10
The Resemblance Between The Old Testament And The New.

Chapter 11
The Difference Between The Two Testaments.

Chapter 12
Christ, To Perform The Office Of Mediator, Behoved To Become Man.

Chapter 13
Christ Clothed With The True Substance Of Human Nature.

Chapter 14
How Two Natures Constitute The Person Of The Mediator.

Chapter 15
Three Things Briefly To Be Regarded In Christ — Viz. His Offices Of Prophet, King, And Priest.

Chapter 16
How Christ Performed The Office Of Redeemer In Procuring Our Salvation. The Death, Resurrection, And Ascension Of Christ.

Chapter 17
Christ Rightly And Properly Said To Have Merited Grace And Salvation For Us.

Book Third
The Mode Of Obtaining The Grace Of Christ

Argument.

Chapter 1
The Benefits Of Christ Made Available To Us By The Secret Operation Of The Spirit.

Chapter 2
Of Faith. The Definition Of It. Its Peculiar Properties.

Chapter 3
Regeneration By Faith. Of Repentance.

Chapter 4
Penitence, As Explained In The Sophistical Jargon Of The Schoolmen, Widely Different From The Purity Required By The Gospel. Of Confession And Satisfaction.

Chapter 5
Of The Modes Of Supplementing Satisfaction — Viz. Indulgences And Purgatory.

Chapter 6
The Life Of A Christian Man. Scriptural Arguments Exhorting To It.

Chapter 7
A Summary Of The Christian Life. Of Self-denial.

Chapter 8
Of Bearing The Cross — One Branch Of Self-denial.

Chapter 9
Of Meditating On The Future Life.

Chapter 10
How To Use The Present Life, And The Comforts Of It.

Chapter 11
Of Justification By Faith. Both The Name And The Reality Defined.

Chapter 12
Necessity Of Contemplating The Judgment-seat Of God, In Order To Be Seriously Convinced Of The Doctrine Of Gratuitous Justification.

Chapter 13
Two Things To Be Observed In Gratuitous Justification.

Chapter 14
The Beginning Of Justification. In What Sense Progressive.

Chapter 15
The Boasted Merit Of Works Subversive Both Of The Glory Of God, In Bestowing Righteousness, And Of The Certainty Of Salvation.

Chapter 16
Refutation Of The Calumnies By Which It Is Attempted To Throw Odium On This Doctrine.

Chapter 17
The Promises Of The Law And The Gospel Reconciled.

Chapter 18
The Righteousness Of Works Improperly Inferred From Rewards.

Chapter 19
Of Christian Liberty.

Chapter 20
Of Prayer — A Perpetual Exercise Of Faith. The Daily Benefits Derived From It.

Chapter 21
Of The Eternal Election, By Which God Has Predestinated Some To Salvation, And Others To Destruction.

Chapter 22
This Doctrine Confirmed By Proofs From Scripture.

Chapter 23
Refutation Of The Calumnies By Which This Doctrine Is Always Unjustly Assailed.

Chapter 24
Election Confirmed By The Calling Of God. The Reprobate Bring Upon Themselves The Righteous Destruction To Which They Are Doomed.

Chapter 25
Of The Last Resurrection.

Book Fourth
Of The Holy Catholic Church

Argument.

Chapter 1
Of The True Church. Duty Of Cultivating Unity With Her, As The Mother Of All The Godly.

Chapter 2
Comparison Between The False Church And The True.

Chapter 3
Of The Teachers And Ministers Of The Church. Their Election And Office.

Chapter 4
Of The State Of The Primitive Church, And The Mode Of Government In Use Before The Papacy.

Chapter 5
The Ancient Form Of Government Utterly Corrupted By The Tyranny Of The Papacy.

Chapter 6
Of The Primacy Of The Romish See.

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.

Chapter 8
Of The Power Of The Church In Articles Of Faith. The Unbridled Licence Of The Papal Church In Destroying Purity Of Doctrine.

Chapter 9
Of Councils And Their Authority

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.

Chapter 11
Of The Jurisdiction Of The Church, And The Abuses Of It, As Exemplified In The Papacy.

Chapter 12
Of The Discipline Of The Church, And Its Principal Use In Censures And Excommunication.

Chapter 13
Of Vows. The Miserable Entanglements Caused By Vowing Rashly.

Chapter 14
Of The Sacraments.

Chapter 15
Of Baptism.

Chapter 16
Pædobaptism. Its Accordance With The Institution Of Christ, And The Nature Of The Sign.

Chapter 17
Of The Lord’s Supper, And The Benefits Conferred By It

Chapter 18 - Of The Popish Mass. How It Not Only Profanes, But Annihilates The Lord’s Supper.

Chapter 19
Of The Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called. Their Spuriousness Proved, And Their True Character Explained.

Chapter 20
Of Civil Government.

One Hundred Aphorisms,

Begin (Introduction)

Institutes of The Christian Religion
by John Calvin (Jean Cauvin)
1559 Edition

Institutes of The Christian Religion
by John Calvin (Jean Cauvin)
1559 Edition

Institutes of The Christian Religion
by John Calvin (Jean Cauvin)

——Table of Contents——

Prefatory Material

Book First
Of The Knowledge Of God The Creator

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.

Book Third
The Mode Of Obtaining The Grace Of Christ

Book Fourth
Of The Holy Catholic Church

One Hundred Aphorisms,

Institutes of The Christian Religion by John Calvin (Jean Cauvin)

——Table of Contents——

Prefatory Material

Book FirstOf The Knowledge Of God The Creator

Book SecondOf The Knowledge Of God The Redeemer, In Christ, As First Manifested To The Fathers, Under The Law, And Thereafter To Us Under The Gospel.

Book ThirdThe Mode Of Obtaining The Grace Of Christ

Book FourthOf The Holy Catholic Church

One Hundred Aphorisms,

Institutes of The Christian Religion
by John Calvin (Jean Cauvin)

Book First
Of The Knowledge Of God The Creator

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.

Book Third
The Mode Of Obtaining The Grace Of Christ

Book Fourth
Of The Holy Catholic Church