Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
by Jean Calvin
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Institutes of the Christian Religion This limited edition of John Calvin's Reformation classic, "Institutes of the Christian Religion," commemorates the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth in 1509.This beautiful new jacketed cloth volume features: - An eight-page, four-color insert on coated stock, including a frontispiece featuring the title page of the original publication and a timeline of the Reformation and of John Calvin's life... Full description
Chapters (693)
- Institutes of the Christian Religion
- BOOK III.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE COMMENCEMENT AND CONTINUAL PROGRESS OF JUSTIFICATION.
- CHAPTER XV. BOASTING OF THE MERIT OF WORKS, EQUALLY SUBVERSIVE OF GOD’S GLORY IN THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND OF THE CERTAINTY OF SALVATION.
- CHAPTER XVI. A REFUTATION OF THE INJURIOUS CALUMNIES OF THE PAPISTS AGAINST THIS DOCTRINE.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE HARMONY BETWEEN THE PROMISES OF THE LAW AND THOSE OF THE GOSPEL.
- CHAPTER XVIII. JUSTIFICATION BY WORKS NOT TO BE INFERRED FROM THE PROMISE OF A REWARD.
- CHAPTER XIX. ON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY.
- CHAPTER XX. ON PRAYER, THE PRINCIPAL EXERCISE OF FAITH, AND THE MEDIUM OF OUR DAILY RECEPTION OF DIVINE BLESSINGS.
- CHAPTER XXI. ETERNAL ELECTION, OR GOD’S PREDESTINATION OF SOME TO SALVATION, AND OF OTHERS TO DESTRUCTION.
- CHAPTER XXII. TESTIMONIES OF SCRIPTURE IN CONFIRMATION OF THIS DOCTRINE.
- CHAPTER XXIII. A REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES GENERALLY, BUT UNJUSTLY, URGED AGAINST THIS DOCTRINE.
- CHAPTER XXIV. ELECTION CONFIRMED BY THE DIVINE CALL. THE DESTINED DESTRUCTION OF THE REPROBATE PROCURED BY THEMSELVES.
- CHAPTER XXV. THE FINAL RESURRECTION.
- BOOK IV. ON THE EXTERNAL MEANS OR AIDS BY WHICH GOD CALLS US INTO COMMUNION WITH CHRIST, AND RETAINS US IN IT.
- ARGUMENT.
- CHAPTER I. THE TRUE CHURCH, AND THE NECESSITY OF OUR UNION WITH HER, BEING THE MOTHER OF ALL THE PIOUS.
- CHAPTER II. THE TRUE AND FALSE CHURCH COMPARED.
- CHAPTER III. THE TEACHERS AND MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH; THEIR ELECTION AND OFFICE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE STATE OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH, AND THE MODE OF GOVERNMENT PRACTISED BEFORE THE PAPACY.
- CHAPTER V. THE ANCIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT ENTIRELY SUBVERTED BY THE PAPAL TYRANNY.
- CHAPTER VI. THE PRIMACY OF THE ROMAN SEE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE PAPAL POWER TO ITS PRESENT EMINENCE, ATTENDED WITH THE LOSS OF LIBERTY TO THE CHURCH, AND THE RUIN OF ALL MODERATION.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE POWER OF THE CHURCH RESPECTING ARTICLES OF FAITH, AND ITS LICENTIOUS PERVERSION, UNDER THE PAPACY, TO THE CORRUPTION OF ALL PURITY OF DOCTRINE.
- CHAPTER IX. COUNCILS; THEIR AUTHORITY.
- CHAPTER X. THE POWER OF LEGISLATION, IN WHICH THE POPE AND HIS ADHERENTS HAVE MOST CRUELLY TYRANNIZED OVER THE MINDS, AND TORTURED THE BODIES, OF MEN.
- CHAPTER XI. THE JURISDICTION OF THE CHURCH, AND ITS ABUSE UNDER THE PAPACY.
- CHAPTER XII. THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH; ITS PRINCIPAL USE IN CENSURES AND EXCOMMUNICATION.
- CHAPTER XIII. VOWS: THE MISERY OF RASHLY MAKING THEM.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE SACRAMENTS.
- CHAPTER XV. BAPTISM.
- CHAPTER XVI. PÆDOBAPTISM PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE INSTITUTION OF CHRIST AND THE NATURE OF THE SIGN.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE LORD’S SUPPER AND ITS ADVANTAGES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE PAPAL MASS NOT ONLY A SACRILEGIOUS PROFANATION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, BUT A TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF IT.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE FIVE OTHER CEREMONIES, FALSELY CALLED SACRAMENTS, PROVED NOT TO BE SACRAMENTS; THEIR NATURE EXPLAINED.
- CONFIRMATION.
- PENANCE.
- EXTREME UNCTION.
- ECCLESIASTICAL ORDERS.
- MATRIMONY.
- CHAPTER XX. ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
- INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS.
- SCRIPTURE INDEX TO CALVIN’S INSTITUTES.
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