Calvin, John, 1509-1564 . Institutes of the Christian Religion, vol. 2
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Front Matter
Book 3
INSTITUTES
OF
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
BOOK THIRD.
THE MODE OF OBTAINING THE GRACE OF CHRIST. THE
BENEFITS IT CONFERS, AND THE EFFECTS RESULTING
FROM IT.
Chapter 1
INSTITUTES
OF
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
BOOK THIRD.
THE MODE OF OBTAINING THE GRACE OF CHRIST. THE
BENEFITS IT CONFERS, AND THE EFFECTS RESULTING
FROM IT.
CHAPTER 1.
THE BENEFITS OF CHRIST MADE AVAILABLE TO US BY THE SECRET
OPERATION OF THE SPIRIT.
Chapter 2
CHAPTER 2.
OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES.
Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3.
REGENERATION BY FAITH. OF REPENTANCE.
Chapter 4
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
CHAPTER 5.
OF THE MODES OF SUPPLEMENTING SATISFACTION — VIZ. INDULGENCES AND
PURGATORY.
Chapter 6
CHAPTER 6.
THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN. SCRIPTURAL
ARGUMENTS EXHORTING TO IT.
Chapter 7
CHAPTER 7.
A SUMMARY OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. OF SELF-DENIAL.
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Chapter 8
CHAPTER 8.
OF BEARING THE CROSS — ONE BRANCH OF SELF-DENIAL.
Chapter 9
CHAPTER 9.
OF MEDITATING ON THE FUTURE LIFE.
Chapter 10
CHAPTER 10.
HOW TO USE THE PRESENT LIFE, AND THE COMFORTS OF IT.
Chapter 11
CHAPTER 11.
OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. BOTH THE NAME AND THE REALITY
DEFINED.
Chapter 12
CHAPTER 12.
NECESSITY OF CONTEMPLATING THE JUDGMENT-SEAT OF GOD, IN
ORDER TO BE SERIOUSLY CONVINCED OF THE DOCTRINE OF GRATUITOUS
JUSTIFICATION.
Chapter 13
CHAPTER 13.
TWO THINGS TO BE OBSERVED IN GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION.
Chapter 14
CHAPTER 14.
THE BEGINNING OF JUSTIFICATION. IN WHAT SENSE PROGRESSIVE.
Chapter 15
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
CHAPTER 16.
REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO
THROW ODIUM ON THIS DOCTRINE.
Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17.
THE PROMISES OF THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL RECONCILED.
Chapter 18
CHAPTER 18.
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF WORKS IMPROPERLY INFERRED FROM
REWARDS.
Chapter 19
CHAPTER 19.
OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY.
Chapter 20
CHAPTER 20.
OF PRAYER — A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY
BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT.
Chapter 21
CHAPTER 21.
OF THE ETERNAL ELECTION, BY WHICH GOD HAS PREDESTINATED
SOME TO SALVATION, AND OTHERS TO DESTRUCTION.
Chapter 22
CHAPTER 22.
THIS DOCTRINE CONFIRMED BY PROOFS FROM SCRIPTURE.
Chapter 23
CHAPTER 23.
REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH THIS DOCTRINE IS ALWAYS
UNJUSTLY ASSAILED.
Chapter 24
CHAPTER 24.
ELECTION CONFIRMED BY THE CALLING OF GOD. THE REPROBATE
BRING UPON THEMSELVES THE RIGHTEOUS DESTRUCTION TO WHICH
THEY ARE DOOMED.
Chapter 25
CHAPTER 25.
OF THE LAST RESURRECTION.
Book 4
INSTITUTES
OF
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
BOOK FOURTH.
OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH
Chapter 1
INSTITUTES
OF
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
BOOK FOURTH.
OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH
CHAPTER 1.
OF THE TRUE CHURCH. DUTY OF CULTIVATING UNITY WITH HER, AS
THE MOTHER OF ALL THE GODLY.
Chapter 2
CHAPTER 2.
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FALSE CHURCH AND THE TRUE.
Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3.
OF THE TEACHERS AND MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH. THEIR
ELECTION AND OFFICE.
Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4.
OF THE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH, AND THE MODE OF
GOVERNMENT IN USE BEFORE THE PAPACY.
Chapter 5
CHAPTER 5.
THE ANCIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT UTTERLY CORRUPTED BY THE
TYRANNY OF THE PAPACY.
Chapter 6
CHAPTER 6.
OF THE PRIMACY OF THE ROMISH SEE.
Chapter 7
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
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
CHAPTER 9.
OF COUNCILS AND THEIR AUTHORITY.
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Chapter 10
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
CHAPTER 11.
OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CHURCH, AND THE ABUSES OF IT, AS
EXEMPLIFIED IN THE PAPACY.
Chapter 12
CHAPTER 12.
OF THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH, AND ITS PRINCIPAL USE IN CENSURES
AND EXCOMMUNICATION.
Chapter 13
CHAPTER 13.
OF VOWS. THE MISERABLE ENTANGLEMENTS CAUSED BY VOWING RASHLY.
Chapter 14
CHAPTER 14.
OF THE SACRAMENTS.
Chapter 15
CHAPTER 15.
OF BAPTISM.
Chapter 16
CHAPTER 16.
PÆDOBAPTISM. ITS ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF CHRIST,
AND THE NATURE OF THE SIGN.
Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17.
OF THE LORD'S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT.
Chapter 18
CHAPTER 18.
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OF THE POPISH MASS. HOW IT NOT ONLY PROFANES, BUT
ANNIHILATES THE LORD'S SUPPER.
Chapter 19
CHAPTER 19.
OF THE FIVE SACRAMENTS, FALSELY SO CALLED. THEIR SPURIOUSNESS
PROVED, AND THEIR TRUE CHARACTER EXPLAINED.
Chapter 20
CHAPTER 20.
OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
Appendix
ONE HUNDRED APHORISMS
CONTAINING,
WITHIN A NARROW COMPASS, THE SUBSTANCE AND ORDER OF
THE FOUR BOOKS OF THE
INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
Book
BOOK 1
SubSection
BOOK 2
SubSection
BOOK 3
SubSection
BOOK 4
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