INSTITUTES
OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
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INSTITUTES OF THE
CHRISTIAN RELIGION
Author: John Calvin. Published in 1537, 1846. 1,311 pages.
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By 1534 Calvin had converted to
Protestantism, left Paris, and gave up his financial support. In 1535 he
published the initial version of the Institutes. The importance of the
Institutes lies not with any original thinking it contains but with its
inclusive and systematic explication of Protestant doctrine. It forcefully
presents the Protestants’ claim to teach the original doctrine of the church
before it was corrupted by the popes in Rome. Further, the Institutes provides
instructions for the practical organization of the reformed church and its
relations to a political state.
Table of Contents:
Book First: of the Knowledge of God the
Creator.
Chapter I.: The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Mutually Connected.—nature
of the Connection.
Chapter II.: What It Is to Know God.—tendency of This Knowledge.
Chapter III.: The Knowledge of God Naturally Implanted In the Human Mind.
Chapter IV.: The Knowledge of God Stifled Or Corrupted, Ignorantly Or
Maliciously.
Chapter V.: The Knowledge of God Conspicuous In the Creation and Continual
Government of the World.
Chapter VI.: The Need of Scripture, As a Guide and Teacher, In Coming to God As
a Creator.
Chapter VII.: 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 VIII.: The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved, In So Far As
Natural Reason Admits.
Chapter IX.: All the Principles of Piety Subverted By Fanatics, Who Substitute
Revelations For Scripture.
Chapter X.: In Scripture, the True God Opposed, Exclusively, to All the Gods of
the Heathen.
Chapter XI.: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God.—the Setting Up of
Idols a Defection From the True God.
Chapter XII.: God Distinguished From Idols, That He May Be the Exclusive Object
of Worship.
Chapter XIII.: The Unity of the Divine Essence In Three Persons Taught, In
Scripture, From the Foundation of the World.
Chapter XIV.: In the Creation of the World, and All Things In It, the True God
Distinguished By Certain Marks From Fictitious Gods.
Chapter XV.: State In Which Man Was Created. the Faculties of the Soul—the Image
of God—free Will—original Righteousness.
Chapter XVI.: The World, Created By God, Still Cherished and Protected By Him.
Each and All of Its Parts Governed By His Providence.
Chapter XVII.: Use to Be Made of the Doctrine of Providence.
Chapter XVIII.: 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
Chapter I.: Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam, the Whole Human Race Made
Accursed and Degenerate. of Original Sin.
Chapter II.: Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will, and Miserably Enslaved.
Chapter III.: Everything Proceeding From the Corrupt Nature of Man Damnable.
Chapter IV.: How God Works In the Hearts of Men.
Chapter V.: The Arguments Usually Alleged In Support of Free Will Refuted.
Chapter VI.: Redemption For Man Lost to Be Sought In Christ.
Chapter VII.: The Law Given, Not to Retain a People For Itself, But to Keep
Alive the Hope of Salvation In Christ Until His Advent.
Chapter VIII.: Exposition of the Moral Law.
Chapter IX.: Christ, Though Known to the Jews Under the Law, Yet Only Manifested
Under the Gospel.
Chapter X.: The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New.
Chapter XI.: The Difference Between the Two Testaments.
Chapter XII.: Christ, to Perform the Office of Mediator, Behoved to Become Man.
Chapter XIII.: Christ Clothed With the True Substance of Human Nature.
Chapter XIV.: How Two Natures Constitute the Person of the Mediator.
Chapter XV.: Three Things Chiefly to Be Regarded In Christ—viz. His Offices of
Prophet, King, and Priest.
Chapter XVI.: How Christ Performed the Office of Redeemer In Procuring Our
Salvation. the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ.
Chapter XVII.: Christ Rightly and Properly Said to Have Merited Grace and
Salvation For Us.
Book Third: the Mode of Obtaining the
Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting From It.
Chapter I.: The Benefits of Christ Made Available to Us By the Secret Operation
of the Spirit.
Chapter II.: Of Faith. the Definition of It. Its Peculiar Properties.
Chapter III.: Regeneration By Faith. of Repentance.
Chapter IV.: Penitence, As Explained In the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen,
Widely Different From the Purity Required By the Gospel. of Confession and
Satisfaction.
Chapter V.: Of the Modes of Supplementing Satisfaction—viz., Indulgences and
Purgatory.
Chapter VI.: The Life of a Christian Man. Scriptural Arguments Exhorting to It.
Chapter VII.: A Summary of the Christian Life. of Self-denial.
Chapter VIII.: Of Bearing the Cross—one Branch of Self-denial.
Chapter IX.: Of Meditating On the Future Life.
Chapter X.: How to Use the Present Life, and the Comforts of It.
Chapter XI.: Of Justification By Faith. Both the Name and the Reality Defined.
Chapter XII.: Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-seat of God, In Order to
Be Seriously Convinced of the Doctrine of Gratuitous Justification.
Chapter XIII.: Two Things to Be Observed In Gratuitous Justification.
Chapter XIV.: The Beginning of Justification. In What Sense Progressive.
Chapter XV.: The Boasted Merit of Works Subversive Both of the Glory of God, In
Bestowing Righteousness, and of the Certainty of Salvation.
Chapter XVI.: Refutation of the Calumnies By Which It Is Attempted to Throw
Odium On This Doctrine.
Chapter XVII.: The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled.
Chapter XVIII.: The Righteousness of Works Improperly Inferred From Rewards.
Chapter XIX.: Of Christian Liberty.
Chapter XX.: Of Prayer—a Perpetual Exercise of Faith. the Daily Benefits Derived
From It.
Chapter XXI.: Of the Eternal Election, By Which God Has Predestinated Some to
Salvation, and Others to Destruction.
Chapter XXII.: This Doctrine Confirmed By Proofs From Scripture.
Chapter XXIII.: Refutation of the Calumnies By Which This Doctrine Is Always
Unjustly Assailed.
Chapter XXIV.: Election Confirmed By the Calling of God. the Reprobate Bring
Upon Themselves the Righteous Destruction to Which They Are Doomed.
Chapter XXV.: Of the Last Resurrection.
Book Fourth.: of the Holy Catholic
Church.
Chapter I.: Of the True Church. Duty of Cultivating Unity With Her, As the
Mother of All the Godly.
Chapter II.: Comparison Between the False Church and the True.
Chapter III.: Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church. Their Election and
Office.
Chapter IV.: Of the State of the Primitive Church, and the Mode of Government In
Use Before the Papacy.
Chapter V.: The Ancient Form of Government Utterly Corrupted By the Tyranny of
the Papacy.
Chapter VI.: Of the Primacy of the Romish See.
Chapter VII.: 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 VIII.: Of the Power of the Church In Articles of Faith. the Unbridled
Licence of the Papal Church In Destroying Purity of Doctrine.
Chapter IX.: Of Councils and Their Authority.
Chapter X.: Of the Power of Making Laws. the Cruelty of the Pope and His
Adherents, In This Respect, In Tyrannically Oppressing and Destroying Souls.
Chapter XI.: Of the Jurisdiction of the Church, and the Abuses of It, As
Exemplified In the Papacy.
Chapter XII.: Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use In Censures
and Excommunication.
Chapter XIII.: Of Vows. the Miserable Entanglements Caused By Vowing Rashly.
Chapter XIV.: Of the Sacraments.
Chapter XV.: Of Baptism.
Chapter XVI.: Paedobaptism
Chapter XVII.: Of the Lord’s Supper, and the Benefits Conferred By It.
Chapter XVIII. 1: Of the Popish Mass. How It Not Only Profanes, But Annihilates
the Lord’s Supper.
Chapter XIX.: Of the Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called. Their Spuriousness
Proved, and Their True Character Explained.
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