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INSTITUTES

 

OF

 

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

 

 

By

 

JOHN CALVIN

 

 

 

Translated by

 

HENRY BEVERIDGE

 

 

VOLUME 2 of 2


 

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CONTENTS

 

BOOK THIRD (Continued).—THE MODE OF OBTAINING THE GRACE OF CHRIST. THE BENEFITS IT CONFERS, AND THE EFFECTS RESULTING FROM IT.

 

Chapter 6.—The Life of a Christian Man. Scriptural Arguments Exhorting to It

1

Chapter 7.—A Summary of the Christian Life. Of Self-denial

6

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

16

Chapter 9.—Of Meditating on the Future Life

25

Chapter 10.—How to Use the Present Life, and the Comforts of It

31

Chapter 11.—Of Justification by Faith. Both the Name and the Reality Defined

36

Chapter 12.—Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-seat of God, in Order to Be Seriously Convinced of the Doctrine of Gratuitous Justification

60

Chapter 13.—Two Things to Be Observed in Gratuitous Justification

68

Chapter 14.—The Beginning of Justification. In What Sense Progressive

73

Chapter 15.—The Boasted Merit of Works Subversive Both of the Glory of God, in Bestowing Righteousness, and of the Certainty of Salvation

90

Chapter 16.—Refutation of the Calumnies by Which It is Attempted to Throw Odium on this Doctrine

98

Chapter 17.—The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled

103

Chapter 18.—The Righteousness of Works Improperly Inferred from Rewards

119

Chapter 19.—Of Christian Liberty

130

Chapter 20.—Of Prayer—a Perpetual Exercise of Faith. The Daily Benefits Derived from It

143

Chapter 21.—Of the Eternal Election, by Which God Has Predestinated Some to Salvation, and Others to Destruction

202

Chapter 22.—This Doctrine Confirmed by Proofs from Scripture

212

Chapter 23.—Refutation of the Calumnies by Which This Doctrine is Always Unjustly Assailed

225

Chapter 24.—Election Confirmed by the Calling of God. The Reprobate Bring upon Themselves the Righteous Destruction to Which They are Doomed

239

Chapter 25.—Of the Last Resurrection

259

 

 

BOOK FOURTH.—OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH

 

Argument

278

Chapter 1.—Of the True Church. Duty of Cultivating Unity with Her, As the Mother of All the Godly

279

Chapter 2.—Comparison Between the False Church and the True

304

Chapter 3.—Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church. Their Election and Office

315

Chapter 4.—Of the State of the Primitive Church, and the Mode of Government in Use Before the Papacy

327

Chapter 5.—The Ancient Form of Government Utterly Corrupted by the Tyranny of the Papacy

339

Chapter 6.—Of the Primacy of the Romish See

353

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

365

Chapter 8.—Of the Power of the Church in Articles of Faith. The Unbridled Licence of the Papal Church in Destroying Purity of Doctrine

389

Chapter 9.—Of Councils and Their Authority

402

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

413

Chapter 11.—Of the Jurisdiction of the Church, and the Abuses of It, As Exemplified in the Papacy

438

Chapter 12.—Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures and Excommunication

452

Chapter 13.—Of Vows. The Miserable Entanglements Caused by Vowing Rashly

472

Chapter 14.—Of the Sacraments

491

Chapter 15.—Of Baptism

512

Chapter 16.—Paedobaptism. Its Accordance with the Institution of Christ, and the Nature of the Sign

528

Chapter 17.—Of the Lord's Supper, and the Benefits Conferred by It

555

Chapter 18—Of the Popish Mass. How It Not Only Profanes, But Annihilates the Lord's Supper

606

Chapter 19.—Of the Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called. Their Spuriousness Proved, and Their True Character Explained

622

Chapter 20.—Of Civil Government

650

 

 

ONE HUNDRED APHORISMS,

 

Book 1

677

Book 2

678

Book 3

682

Book 4

685

 


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