Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 1

Jean Calvin, John Allen

Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1921 - Reformed Church

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Calvin is really passionate about what he is writing about, and, while his prose can often be really dry and boring, ultimately his enthusiasm shows through. For Calvin, every doctrine he teaches is ...

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Difficult to read. Don't think I got through the whole thing.

Contents

• Tm Authors Preface to the edition published in 1559 p: 17
• Dedication: 30
• Ge ieral Svllabus: 41
• The connection between the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves: 49
• The knowledge of God conspicuous in the formation and continual: 55
• Rational proofs to establish the belief of the Scripture: 81
• The fanaticism which discards the Scripture under the pretence: 91
• Unlawfulness of ascribing to God a visible form All idolatry a defection from the true: 97
• God contradistinguished from idols that he may be solely and supremely worshipped: 112
• The true God distinguished in the Scripture from all fictitioni: 170
• r CONTENTS: 179
• Gods preservation and support of the world by his power: 182
• The proper application of this doctrine to render it useful to: 194
• God uses the agency of the impious and inclines their minds: 211
• BOOK II: 220
• Man in his present state despoiled of freedom of will and subjected: 232
• Every thing that proceeds from the corrupt nature of man worthy: 260
• The operation of God in the hearts of: 273
• Redemption for lost man to be sought ip Christ: 312
• An exposition of the moral: 329
• The power of the Church respecting articles of faith and its licentious perversion under the Papacy to the corruption of all purity of doctrine Chap IX...: 359
• Christ though known to the Jews under the law yet clearly: 380
• Baptism Chap XVI Ptedobaptism perfectly consistent with the institution of Christ and the nature of the sign Chup XVII The Lords supper and its adv...: 385
• The similarity of the Old and New Testaments: 405
• The necessity of Christ becoming man in order to fulfil the office: 419
• Christs assumption of real humanity: 435
• Christs execution of the office of a Redeemer to procure our salvation his death resurrection and ascension to heaven: 476
• BOOK III: 483
• What is declared concerning Christ rendered profitable to us by the cret operation of the Spirit: 484
• Faith defined and its properties described: 489
• On repentance: 534
• The sophistry and jargon of the schools concerning repentance very remote from the purity of the gospel On confession and satisfaction Chap V The...: 614
• Summary of the Christian life Selfdenial Chap VIII Bearing the cross which is a branch of selfdenial: 629
• Meditation on the future life Chap X The right use of the present life and its supports: 645
• Justification by faith The name and thing defined: 650
• A consideration of the Divine tribunal necessary to a serious conviction of gratuitous justification: 675
• The commencement and continual progress of justifica tion Chap XV Boasting of the merit of works equally subversive of Gods glory in the gift of r...: 679

Bibliographic information

• Title: Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 1; Institutes of the Christian Religion, Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Authors: Jean Calvin, John Allen
• Translated by: John Allen
• Edition: 6
• Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1921
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: May 11, 2006