Institutes of the Christian Religion
Translated by Henry Beveridge
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Prefatory Address to King Francis
About this book
Calvin’s summary of Christian doctrine in its final form, the most influential work of Reformed theology. Following the Apostles’ Creed, its four books treat the knowledge of God the Creator, God the Redeemer in Christ, the way we receive Christ’s grace — faith, repentance, the Christian life, justification, prayer and election — and the church, sacraments and civil government. With Calvin’s prefaces, including his address to King Francis, and the One Hundred Aphorisms that summarise the whole.
[prefixed to the french edition, published at geneva in 1545.] In order that my Readers may be the better able to profit by the present work, I am desirous briefly to point out the advantage which they may derive from
Contents
- 1 Prefatory Address to King Francis 42 min
- 2 Epistle to the Reader (1539) 2 min
- 3 Subject of the Present Work (1545) 3 min
- 4 Epistle to the Reader (1559) 5 min
- 5 Method and Arrangement of the Whole Work 8 min
- 6 Book 1 — Of the Knowledge of God the Creator 2 min
- 7 Book 1, Chapter 1 — The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Mutually Connected 6 min
- 8 Book 1, Chapter 2 — What It Is to Know God 6 min
- 9 Book 1, Chapter 3 — The Knowledge of God Naturally Implanted in the Human Mind 7 min
- 10 Book 1, Chapter 4 — The Knowledge of God Stifled or Corrupted, Ignorantly or Maliciously 9 min
- 11 Book 1, Chapter 5 — The Knowledge of God Conspicuous in the Creation, and Continual Government of the World 34 min
- 12 Book 1, Chapter 6 — The Need of Scripture, as a Guide and Teacher, in Coming to God as a Creator 10 min
- 13 Book 1, Chapter 7 — The Testimony of the Spirit Necessary to Give Full Authority to Scripture 15 min
- 14 Book 1, Chapter 8 — The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved in So Far as Natural Reason Admits 25 min
- 15 Book 1, Chapter 9 — All the Principles of Piety Subverted by Fanatics, Who Substitute Revelations for Scripture 8 min
- 16 Book 1, Chapter 10 — In Scripture, the True God Opposed, Exclusively, to All the Gods of the Heathen 6 min
- 17 Book 1, Chapter 11 — Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God 36 min
- 18 Book 1, Chapter 12 — God Distinguished from Idols, That He May Be the Exclusive Object of Worship 8 min
- 19 Book 1, Chapter 13 — The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in Scripture, from the Foundation of the World 86 min
- 20 Book 1, Chapter 14 — In the Creation of the World, and All Things in It, the True God Distinguished by Certain Marks from Fictitious Gods 49 min
- 21 Book 1, Chapter 15 — State in Which Man Was Created 30 min
- 22 Book 1, Chapter 16 — The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him 30 min
- 23 Book 1, Chapter 17 — Use to Be Made of the Doctrine of Providence 42 min
- 24 Book 1, Chapter 18 — The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He Continues Free from Every Taint 21 min
- 25 Book 2 — Of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ 2 min
- 26 Book 2, Chapter 1 — Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam, the Whole Human Race Made Accursed and Degenerate 28 min
- 27 Book 2, Chapter 2 — Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will, and Miserably Enslaved 71 min
- 28 Book 2, Chapter 3 — Every Thing Proceeding from the Corrupt Nature of Man Damnable 47 min
- 29 Book 2, Chapter 4 — How God Works in the Hearts of Men 16 min
- 30 Book 2, Chapter 5 — The Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of Free Will Refuted 55 min
- 31 Book 2, Chapter 6 — Redemption for Man Lost to Be Sought in Christ 18 min
- 32 Book 2, 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 41 min
- 33 Book 2, Chapter 8 — Exposition of the Moral Law 126 min
- 34 Book 2, Chapter 9 — Christ, Though Known to the Jews Under the Law, Yet Only Manifested Under the Gospel 13 min
- 35 Book 2, Chapter 10 — The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New 50 min
- 36 Book 2, Chapter 11 — The Difference Between the Two Testaments 34 min
- 37 Book 2, Chapter 12 — Christ, to Perform the Office of Mediator, Behoved to Become Man 23 min
- 38 Book 2, Chapter 13 — Christ Clothed with the True Substance of Human Nature 16 min
- 39 Book 2, Chapter 14 — How Two Natures Constitute the Person of the Mediator 25 min
- 40 Book 2, Chapter 15 — Three Things Briefly to Be Regarded in Christ 21 min
- 41 Book 2, Chapter 16 — How Christ Performed the Office of Redeemer in Procuring Our Salvation 54 min
- 42 Book 2, Chapter 17 — Christ Rightly and Properly Said to Have Merited Grace and Salvation for Us 16 min
- 43 Book 3 — The Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ 2 min
- 44 Book 3, Chapter 1 — The Benefits of Christ Made Available to Us by the Secret Operation of the Spirit 12 min
- 45 Book 3, Chapter 2 — Of Faith 112 min
- 46 Book 3, Chapter 3 — Regeneration by Faith 63 min
- 47 Book 3, Chapter 4 — Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen, Widely Different from the Purity Required by the Gospel 100 min
- 48 Book 3, Chapter 5 — Of the Modes of Supplementing Satisfaction 31 min
- 49 Book 3, Chapter 6 — The Life of a Christian Man 12 min
- 50 Book 3, Chapter 7 — A Summary of the Christian Life 27 min
- 51 Book 3, Chapter 8 — Of Bearing the Cross 22 min
- 52 Book 3, Chapter 9 — Of Meditating on the Future Life 16 min
- 53 Book 3, Chapter 10 — How to Use the Present Life, and the Comforts of It 12 min
- 54 Book 3, Chapter 11 — Of Justification by Faith 63 min
- 55 Book 3, Chapter 12 — Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-seat of God, in Order to Be Seriously Convinced of the Doctrine of Gratuitous Justification 20 min
- 56 Book 3, Chapter 13 — Two Things to Be Observed in Gratuitous Justification 13 min
- 57 Book 3, Chapter 14 — The Beginning of Justification 44 min
- 58 Book 3, Chapter 15 — The Boasted Merit of Works Subversive Both of the Glory of God, in Bestowing Righteousness, and of the Certainty of Salvation 20 min
- 59 Book 3, Chapter 16 — Refutation of the Calumnies by Which It Is Attempted to Throw Odium on This Doctrine 11 min
- 60 Book 3, Chapter 17 — The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled 43 min
- 61 Book 3, Chapter 18 — The Righteousness of Works Improperly Inferred from Rewards 29 min
- 62 Book 3, Chapter 19 — Of Christian Liberty 35 min
- 63 Book 3, Chapter 20 — Of Prayer 162 min
- 64 Book 3, Chapter 21 — Of the Eternal Election, by Which God Has Predestinated Some to Salvation, and Others to Destruction 25 min
- 65 Book 3, Chapter 22 — This Doctrine Confirmed by Proofs from Scripture 35 min
- 66 Book 3, Chapter 23 — Refutation of the Calumnies by Which This Doctrine Is Always Unjustly Assailed 38 min
- 67 Book 3, Chapter 24 — Election Confirmed by the Calling of God 55 min
- 68 Book 3, Chapter 25 — Of the Last Resurrection 49 min
- 69 Book 4 — Of the Holy Catholic Church 2 min
- 70 Book 4, Chapter 1 — Of the True Church 66 min
- 71 Book 4, Chapter 2 — Comparison Between the False Church and the True 27 min
- 72 Book 4, Chapter 3 — Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church 33 min
- 73 Book 4, Chapter 4 — Of the State of the Primitive Church, and the Mode of Government in Use Before the Papacy 30 min
- 74 Book 4, Chapter 5 — The Ancient Form of Government Utterly Corrupted by the Tyranny of the Papacy 37 min
- 75 Book 4, Chapter 6 — Of the Primacy of the Romish See 33 min
- 76 Book 4, 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 64 min
- 77 Book 4, Chapter 8 — Of the Power of the Church in Articles of Faith 35 min
- 78 Book 4, Chapter 9 — Of Councils and Their Authority 28 min
- 79 Book 4, Chapter 10 — Of the Power of Making Laws 68 min
- 80 Book 4, Chapter 11 — Of the Jurisdiction of the Church, and the Abuses of It, as Exemplified in the Papacy 37 min
- 81 Book 4, Chapter 12 — Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures and Excommunication 52 min
- 82 Book 4, Chapter 13 — Of Vows 49 min
- 83 Book 4, Chapter 14 — Of the Sacraments 56 min
- 84 Book 4, Chapter 15 — Of Baptism 41 min
- 85 Book 4, Chapter 16 — Pædobaptism 72 min
- 86 Book 4, Chapter 17 — Of the Lord’s Supper, and the Benefits Conferred by It 143 min
- 87 Book 4, Chapter 18 — Of the Popish Mass 41 min
- 88 Book 4, Chapter 19 — Of the Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called 73 min
- 89 Book 4, Chapter 20 — Of Civil Government 71 min
- 90 One Hundred Aphorisms: Book 1 4 min
- 91 One Hundred Aphorisms: Book 2 8 min
- 92 One Hundred Aphorisms: Book 3 9 min
- 93 One Hundred Aphorisms: Book 4 9 min
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