THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN CALVIN

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN CALVIN

John Calvin's Writings, Biography and Portraits

1. Tracts and Letters
2. Calvin's Letters
3. Secret Providence - Articles
4. Treatise on Relics
5. History of the Reformation in the Time of Calvin
6. Verse Master Bible Reference Library on CD
7. History of John Calvin
8. The Institutes of the Christian Religion (Version 2)

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TRACTS AND LETTERS

• TRACTS AND LETTERS
• TRACTS AND LETTERS
• CONTENTS.
• TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
• THE CHURCH OF GENEVA
• CONFESSION OF FAITH
• CONFESSION OF FAITH
• THE SUPPER OF OUR LORD
• THE SACRAMENTS
• JOHN CALVIN LETTER TO PASTORS & DOCTORS
• THE CALUMNIES OF JOACHIM WESTPHAL.
• SECOND DEFENCE
• LAST ADMONITION OF JOHN CALVIN
• TILEMAN HESHUSIUS.
• THE BEST METHOD OF OBTAINING CONCORD
• FOOTNOTES
• HISTORY SELECTED WORKS OF JOHN CALVIN - TRACTS
• TRACTS AND LETTERS
• CONTENTS.
• TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
• ACTS OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
• THE ADULTERO-GERMAN INTERIM
• TRUE METHOD OF GIVING PEACE TO CHRISTENDOM & REFORMING THE CHURCH.
• APPENIDIX TO THE TRACT
• THE UNLAWFUL RITES OF THE UNGODLY
• PSYCHOPANNYCHIA 1
• PSYCHOPANNYCHIA 2

CALVIN'S LETTERS

• HISTORY THE LIFE OF JOHN CALVIN
• THE LIFE OF JOHN CALVIN
• CHARACTER OF CALVIN
• NOTES TO THE LIFE OF CALVIN
• ADDITIONAL NOTES
• CORRESPONDENCE
• LETTER 1
• LETTER 2
• LETTER 3
• LETTER 4
• LETTER 5
• LETTER 6
• LETTER 7
• LETTER 8
• LETTER 9
• LETTER 9 (CONTINUED)
• LETTER 10
• LETTER 11
• LETTER 12
• LETTER 13
• LETTER 14
• LETTER 15
• LETTER 16
• LETTER 17
• LETTER 18
• LETTER 19
• LETTER 20
• LETTER 21
• LETTER 22
• LETTER 23
• LETTER 24
• LETTER 25
• LETTER 26
• A CATALOGUE OF JOHN CALVIN’S WRITINGS.
• FOOTNOTES

SECRET PROVIDENCE - ARTICLES

• SECRET PROVIDENCE
  
• TRANSLATION NOTE
• CONTENTS
• TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
• CALUMNIES OF A CERTAIN FELLOW AGAINST THE DOCTRINE OF JOHN CALVIN
• CALUMNIATOR’S PREFACE
• JOHN CALVIN’S REPLY TO THE CALUMNIATOR’S PREFACE
• ARTICLES GATHERED FROM THE LATIN AND FRENCH WORKS OF JOHN CALVIN
• ARTICLE SECOND
• ARTICLE THIRD
• ARTICLE FOURTH
• ARTICLE FIFTH
• ARTICLE SIXTH
• ARTICLE SEVENTH
• ARTICLE EIGHTH
• ARTICLE NINTH
• ARTICLE TENTH
• ARTICLE ELEVENTH
• ARTICLE TWELFTH
• ARTICLE THIRTEENTH
• ARTICLE FOURTEENTH

TREATISE on RELICS

• TREATISE on RELICS
• INTRODUCTION
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTORY DISSERTATION.
• CALVIN’S TREATISE on RELICS.
• FOOTNOTES

HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE TIME OF CALVIN

• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE TIME OF CALVIN
• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE IN THE TIME OF CALVIN.
• VOLUME 3. PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• TIMES OF HOSTILITY TO THE REFORM IN FRANCE. CHAPTER 1.
• STRUGGLES OF THE REFORMATION. CHAPTER 1.
• TIMES OF HOSTILITY TO THE REFORM IN FRANCE. CHAPTER 1. CALVIN, THE FUGITIVE, IN HIS RETREAT AT ANGOULEME.
• THE EXILE TURNS PREACHER.
• CALVIN AT NERAC WITH ROUSSEL AND LEFEVRE.
• A DRAMATIC REPRESENTATION AT THE COURT OF NAVARRE.
• CALVIN AT POITIERS, AT THE BASSES-TRELLES, AND IN ST. BENEDICT’S CAVES.
• CALVIN AND HIS DISCIPLES BEGIN THE EVANGELISATION OF FRANCE.
• THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS OF PARIS IN 1534.
• CALVIN’S FIRST RELATIONS WITH THE LIBERTINES AND SERVETUS.
• THE PLACARDS.
• THE KING’S ANGER.
• EXPIATIONS AND PROCESSIONS.
• THE ELOQUENCE AND TORTURES OF FRANCIS I.
• CALVIN AT STRASBURG, WITH ERASMUS, AND AT BASLE.
• INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
• CALVIN ADDRESSES THE KING AND DEPARTS FOR ITALY.
• STRUGGLES OF THE REFORMATION. EFFORTS IN THE PAYS DE VAUD.
• PLOT OF THE WOMEN AGAINST REFORM; FAREL’S PREACHING.
• A NEW REFORMER AND AN IMAGE-BREAKER.
• THE BATTLES OF GRANDSON.
• THE WALDENSES APPEAR.
• PLANS OF THE EMPEROR, THE DUKE OF SAVOY, AND THE BISHOP AGAINST GENEVA.
• THE REFORMERS AND THE REFORMATION ENTER GENEVA.
• THE REFORMERS ARE EXPELLED FROM GENEVA.
• A JOURNEY TO THE VALLEYS OF PIEDMONT, AND STRUGGLES NEAR NEUCHATEL.
• THE SCHOOLMASTER AND CLAUDINE LEVET.
• FORMATION OF THE CHURCH. FRIENDS AND OPPONENTS.
• THE SERMON AT THE MOLARD.
• HOLY SCRIPTURE AND THE LORD’S SUPPER AT GENEVA.
• FORMATION OF A CATHOLIC CONSPIRACY.
• FIRST ARMED ATTACK OF THE CATHOLICS UPON THE REFORMATION.
• TRUCE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES.
• SECOND ATTACK, IN WHICH THE LEADER PERISHES.
• THE CANON’S DEATH MADE A WEAPON AGAINST THE REFORM.
• CATASTROPHE.
• FOOTNOTES
• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE TIME OF CALVIN
• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE
• VOL. 5
• CONTENTS
• BOOK 9
• BOOK 8
• A CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE REFORMATION
• HENRY VIII. SEPARATES ENGLAND FROM THE PAPACY
• BEGINNING OF DANGER FOR THE QUEEN AND FOR TYNDALE
• THE KING-PONTIFF AGAINST THE ROMANCATHOLICS AND THE PAPACY
• LIGHT FROM BOTH SIDES
• EXECUTION OF BISHOP FISHER AND SIR THOMAS MORE
• VISITATION OF THE MONASTERIES: THEIR SCANDALS AND SUPPRESSION
• UNION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WITH THE PROTESTANTS OF GERMANY
• ACCUSATION OF ANNE
• ANNE FORGIVES HER ENEMIES, AND IS PUT TO DEATH
• REFORMING MOVEMENT AFTER ANNE’S DEATH; CATHOLIC AND SCHOLASTIC REACTION
• A MOVEMENT OF SCHOLASTIC CATHOLICISM INAUGURATED BY THE KING. EVANGELICAL REACTION.
• INSURRECTION OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND TO RESTORE THE PAPACY AND DESTROY THE REFORMATION.
• THE DEATH OF THE GREAT REFORMER OF ENGLAND.
• REFORMATION OF GENEVA BY FAREL’S MINISTRY, AND ARRIVAL OF CALVIN IN THAT CITY AFTER HIS SOJOURN IN ITALY.
• PROGRESS, STRUGGLES, AND MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION IN GENEVA.
• POISONING OF THE REFORMERS — CONVERSION OF THE HEAD OF THE FRANCISCANS.
• PREPARATION FOR A PUBLIC DISPUTATION AT GENEVA.
• THE GREAT PUBLIC DEBATE on THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EVANGELICAL FAITH.
• TRIUMPH OF THE WORD OF GOD, BOTH WRITTEN AND SPOKEN.
• IMAGES AND THE MASS ABOLISHED.
• PRIESTS, MONKS, NUNS, AND VICAR-GENERAL DEPART.
• AN ENERGETIC CITIZEN CALLS SWITZERLAND TO HELP GENEVA AND THE REFORMATION.
• WAR AND THE BATTLE OF GINGINS.
• DIPLOMACY, OR THE CASTLE OF COPPET.
• MOVEMENTS FOR THE ATTACK AND DEFENCE OF GENEVA — FAITH AND HEROISM.
• EXTREME PERIL.
• DESTRUCTION OF THE CASTLES JOY IN GENEVA — LIBERATION OF BONIVARD.
• THE PEOPLE OF GENEVA DESIRE TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL.
• CALVIN AT FERRARA.
• CALVIN FLIGHT.
• CALVIN’S ARRIVAL AT GENEVA.
• FOOTNOTES
• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE TIME OF CALVIN
• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE
• GENEVA. DENMARK, SWEDEN, NORWAY. HUNGARY, POLAND, BOHEMIA. THE NETHERLANDS.
• EDITOR’S PREFACE.
• CALVIN AND THE PRINCIPLES OF HIS REFORM.
• BOOK 13. HUNGARY, POLAND, BOHEMIA. THE NETHERLANDS.
• CALVIN AND THE PRINCIPLES OF HIS REFORM.
• RECALL OF CALVIN TO GENEVA
• CALVIN AT RATISBON
• CALVIN’S RETURN TO GENEVA.
• THE ECCLESIASTICAL ORDINANCES.
• CALVIN’S PREACHING.
• CALVIN’S ACTIVITY.
• THE REFORMATION AMONG THE SCANDINAVIAN NATIONS
• THE AWAKING OF DENMARK.
• A REFORMATION ESTABLISHED UNDER THE REIGN OF LIBERTY.
• TRIUMPH OF THE REFORMATION UNDER THE REIGN OF FREDERICK I., THE PEACEFUL.
• INTERREGNUM — CIVIL AND FOREIGN WAR.
• CHRISTIAN III. PROCLAIMED KING. TRIUMPH OF THE REFORMATION IN DENMARK, NORWAY, AND ICELAND.
• THE EARLIEST REFORMERS OF SWEDEN.
• THE REFORMERS SUPPORTED BY THE LIBERATOR OF SWEDEN.
• STRUGGLES.
• VICTORY.
• ‘CESAROPAPIE.’
• THE SONS OF GUSTAVUS VASA.
• HUNGARY, POLAND, BOHEMIA, THE NETHERLANDS.
• THE FIRST REFORMERS AND THE FIRST PERSECUTORS IN HUNGARY.
• SOLYMAN’S GREAT VICTORY.
• DEVAY AND HIS FELLOW-WORKERS.
• PROGRESS OF EVANGELIZATION AND OF THE SWISS REFORMATION IN HUNGARY.
• THE GOSPEL IN HUNGARY UNDER TURKISH RULE.
• BOHEMIA MORAVIA AND POLAND.
• THE POLISH REFORMER.
• THE POLISH REFORMER IN THE NETHERLANDS AND IN FRIESLAND.
• BEGINNING OF REFORMATION IN THE NETHERLANDS.
• “TOOTHING-STONES.”
• THE VICTIMS OF CHARLES THE FIFTH.
• LOUVAIN.
• FOOTNOTES
• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE TIME OF CALVIN
• HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE IN THE TIME OF CALVIN.
• SPAIN, ENGLAND, GERMANY
• NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
• CONTENTS
• THE SPANISH MARTYRS.
• THE AWAKENING IN SPAIN.
• REFORMATION AND INQUISITION.
• SPAIN OUT OF SPAIN.
• THE NEW TESTAMENT IN SPANISH PRESENTED TO CHARLES THE FIFTH BY ENZINAS.
• FANATICISM AND BROTHERLY LOVE. JUAN DIAZ.
• SPANIARDS IN SPAIN.
• QUEEN JOANNA.
• ENGLAND.
• THE THREE PARTIES WHICH DIVIDED ENGLAND.
• HENRY VIII., SUPREME HEAD OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH — A MARTYR.
• THE SIX ARTICLES.
• HENRY VIII. AND ANNE OF CLEVES
• DISGRACE AND DEATH OF CROMWELL, EARL OF ESSEX.
• DIVORCE OF ANNE OF CLEVES.
• CATHERINE HOWARD, A CATHOLIC QUEEN.
• A PROTESTANT QUEEN, CATHERINE PARR
• THE LAST MARTYRS OF HENRY’S REIGN.
• QUEEN CATHERINE IN DANGER OF DEATH
• CLOSE OF THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII.
• GERMANY TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER
• PROGRESS OF THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY.
• THE PRINCIPALITY OF ANHALT
• THE TRIUMPH OF THE ANABAPTISTS OF MUNSTER
• THE ANABAPTISTS OF MUNSTER. EXCESSES.
• THE ANABAPTISTS OF MUNSTER. CHASTISEMENT
• FOOTNOTES

HISTORY OF JOHN CALVIN

• HISTORY OF JOHN CALVIN
• JOHN CALVIN: HIS LIFE, HIS TEACHING, AND HIS INFLUENCE.
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• THE UNFOLDING OF THE PURPOSE
• EARLY DAYS OF THE REFORMER
• THE REFORMER’S CALL BY GRACE
• THROUGH THE LAW TO THE GOSPEL
• GOSPEL LABORS IN PARIS
• PERSECUTIONS
• “PLACARDS” AND MARTYR-FIRES.
• THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
• A CHAIN OF GOLDEN TRUTHS.
• CALVIN IS LED TO GENEVA.
• LABORS AND PERILS IN GENEVA.
• THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE.
• CALVIN’S WORK AT STRASBURG.
• THE REFORMER’S WORK AT GENEVA.
• CALVIN AND SERVETUS.
• INFLUENCE UPON ENGLAND.
• THE REFORMER’S LAST DAYS.
• ESTIMATE OF CALVIN’S WORK.
• ESTIMATE OF CALVIN’S CHARACTER.
• WHAT THE REFORMATION REALLY MEANS.
• OUR PRESENT POSITION, PRIVILEGE, AND DUTY.
• FOOTNOTES

THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION (VERSION 2)

PREFACES

• PREFACE TO THE ELECTRONIC EDITION.

• INTRODUCTION

• THE PRINTERS TO THE READERS.

• THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.

• PREFATORY ADDRESS TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY, THE MOST MIGHTY AND ILLUSTRIOUS MONARCH, FRANCIS, KING OF THE FRENCH, HIS SOVEREIGN

• THE EPISTLE TO THE READER

• SUBJECT OF THE PRESENT WORK

• EPISTLE TO THE READER.

• METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT,OR SUBJECT OF THE WHOLE WORK.

GENERAL INDEX OF CHAPTERS

BOOK FIRST. - OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE CREATOR

• ARGUMENT.

• CHAPTER 1. - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF OURSELVES MUTUALLY CONNECTED. —NATURE OF THE CONNECTION.

• CHAPTER 2. - WHAT IT IS TO KNOW GOD,—TENDENCY OF THIS KNOWLEDGE.

• CHAPTER 3. - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD NATURALLY IMPLANTED IN THE HUMAN MIND.

• CHAPTER 4. - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD STIFLED OR CORRUPTED, IGNORANTLY OR MALICIOUSLY.

• CHAPTER 5. - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CONSPICUOUS IN THE CREATION, AND CONTINUAL GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD.

• CHAPTER 6. - THE NEED OF SCRIPTURE, AS A GUIDE AND TEACHER, IN COMING TO GOD AS A CREATOR

• CHAPTER 7. - 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 8. - THE CREDIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE SUFFICIENTLY PROVED IN SO FAR AS NATURAL REASON ADMITS.

• CHAPTER 9. - ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF PIETY SUBVERTED BY FANATICS, WHO SUBSTITUTE REVELATIONS FOR SCRIPTURE.

• CHAPTER 10. - IN SCRIPTURE, THE TRUE GOD OPPOSED, EXCLUSIVELY, TO ALL THE GODS OF THE HEATHEN.

• CHAPTER 11. - IMPIETY OF ATTRIBUTING A VISIBLE FORM TO GOD.—THE SETTING UP OF IDOLS A DEFECTION FROM THE TRUE GOD.

• CHAPTER 12. - GOD DISTINGUISHED FROM IDOLS, THAT HE MAY BE THE EXCLUSIVE OBJECT OF WORSHIP.

• CHAPTER 13. - THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE IN THREE PERSONS TAUGHT, IN SCRIPTURE, FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.

• CHAPTER 14. - IN THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, AND ALL THINGS IN IT, THE TRUE GOD DISTINGUISHED BY CERTAIN MARKS FROM FICTITIOUS GODS.

• CHAPTER 15. - STATE IN WHICH MAN WAS CREATED. THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL—THE IMAGE OF GOD—FREE WILL—ORIGINAL RIGHTEOUSNESS

• CHAPTER 16. - THE WORLD, CREATED BY GOD, STILL CHERISHED AND PROTECTED BY HIM. EACH AND ALL OF ITS PARTS GOVERNED BY HIS PROVIDENCE.

• CHAPTER 17. - USE TO BE MADE OF THE DOCTRINE OF PROVIDENCE.

• CHAPTER 18. - 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.

ARGUMENT.

CHAPTER 1. - THROUGH THE FALL AND REVOLT OF ADAM, THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE MADE ACCURSED AND DEGENERATE. OF ORIGINAL SIN.

CHAPTER 2. - MAN NOW DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM OF WILL, AND MISERABLY ENSLAVED.

CHAPTER 3. - EVERY THING PROCEEDING FROM THE CORRUPT NATURE OF MAN DAMNABLE.

CHAPTER 4. - HOW GOD WORKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN.

CHAPTER 5. - THE ARGUMENTS USUALLY ALLEGED IN SUPPORT OF FREE WILL REFUTED.

CHAPTER 6. - REDEMPTION FOR MAN LOST TO BE SOUGHT IN CHRIST.

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.

CHAPTER 8. - EXPOSITION OF THE MORAL LAW.

CHAPTER 9. - CHRIST, THOUGH KNOWN TO THE JEWS UNDER THE LAW, YET onLY MANIFESTED UNDER THE GOSPEL.

CHAPTER 10. - THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW.

CHAPTER 11. - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO TESTAMENTS.

CHAPTER 12. - CHRIST, TO PERFORM THE OFFICE OF MEDIATOR, BEHOVED TO BECOME MAN.

CHAPTER 13. - CHRIST CLOTHED WITH THE TRUE SUBSTANCE OF HUMAN NATURE.

CHAPTER 14. - HOW TWO NATURES CONSTITUTE THE PERSON OF THE MEDIATOR.

CHAPTER 15. - THREE THINGS BRIEFLY TO BE REGARDED IN CHRIST—VIZ. HIS OFFICES OF PROPHET, KING, AND PRIEST.

CHAPTER 16. - HOW CHRIST PERFORMED THE OFFICE OF REDEEMER IN PROCURING OUR SALVATION. THE DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST.

CHAPTER 17. - 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.

ARGUMENT.

CHAPTER 1. - THE BENEFITS OF CHRIST MADE AVAILABLE TO US BY THE SECRET OPERATION OF THE SPIRIT.

CHAPTER 2. - OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES.

CHAPTER 3. - REGENERATION BY FAITH. OF REPENTANCE.

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. - OF THE MODES OF SUPPLEMENTING SATISFACTION—VIZ. INDULGENCES AND PURGATORY.

CHAPTER 6. - THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN. SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENTS EXHORTING TO IT.

CHAPTER 7. - A SUMMARY OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. OF SELF-DENIAL.

CHAPTER 8. - OF BEARING THE CROSS—ONE BRANCH OF SELF-DENIAL.

CHAPTER 9. - OF MEDITATING on THE FUTURE LIFE.

CHAPTER 10. - HOW TO USE THE PRESENT LIFE, AND THE COMFORTS OF IT.

CHAPTER 11. - OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. BOTH THE NAME AND THE REALITY DEFINED.

CHAPTER 12. - NECESSITY OF CONTEMPLATING THE JUDGMENT-SEAT OF GOD, IN ORDER TO BE SERIOUSLY CONVINCED OF THE DOCTRINE OF GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION.

CHAPTER 13. - TWO THINGS TO BE OBSERVED IN GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION.

CHAPTER 14. - THE BEGINNING OF JUSTIFICATION. IN WHAT SENSE PROGRESSIVE.

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. - REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO THROW ODIUM on THIS DOCTRINE.

CHAPTER 17. - THE PROMISES OF THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL RECONCILED.

CHAPTER 18. - THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF WORKS IMPROPERLY INFERRED FROM REWARDS.

CHAPTER 19. - OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY.

CHAPTER 20. - OF PRAYER—A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT.

CHAPTER 21. - OF THE ETERNAL ELECTION, BY WHICH GOD HAS PREDESTINATED SOME TO SALVATION, AND OTHERS TO DESTRUCTION.

CHAPTER 22. - THIS DOCTRINE CONFIRMED BY PROOFS FROM SCRIPTURE.

CHAPTER 23. - REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH THIS DOCTRINE IS ALWAYS UNJUSTLY ASSAILED.

CHAPTER 24. - ELECTION CONFIRMED BY THE CALLING OF GOD. THE REPROBATE BRING UPON THEMSELVES THE RIGHTEOUS DESTRUCTION TO WHICH THEY ARE DOOMED.

CHAPTER 25. - OF THE LAST RESURRECTION.

BOOK FOURTH. - OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH

ARGUMENT.

CHAPTER 1. - OF THE TRUE CHURCH. DUTY OF CULTIVATING UNITY WITH HER, AS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE GODLY.

CHAPTER 2. - COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FALSE CHURCH AND THE TRUE.

CHAPTER 3. - OF THE TEACHERS AND MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH. THEIR ELECTION AND OFFICE.

CHAPTER 4. - OF THE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH, AND THE MODE OF GOVERNMENT IN USE BEFORE THE PAPACY.

CHAPTER 5. - THE ANCIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT UTTERLY CORRUPTED BY THE TYRANNY OF THE PAPACY.

CHAPTER 6. - OF THE PRIMACY OF THE ROMISH SEE.

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. - OF THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN ARTICLES OF FAITH. THE UNBRIDLED LICENCE OF THE PAPAL CHURCH IN DESTROYING PURITY OF DOCTRINE.

CHAPTER 9. - OF COUNCILS AND THEIR AUTHORITY

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. - OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CHURCH, AND THE ABUSES OF IT, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE PAPACY.

CHAPTER 12. - OF THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH, AND ITS PRINCIPAL USE IN CENSURES AND EXCOMMUNICATION.

CHAPTER 13. - OF VOWS. THE MISERABLE ENTANGLEMENTS CAUSED BY VOWING RASHLY.

CHAPTER 14. - OF THE SACRAMENTS.

CHAPTER 15. - OF BAPTISM.

CHAPTER 16. - PÆDOBAPTISM. ITS ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF CHRIST, AND THE NATURE OF THE SIGN.

CHAPTER 17. - OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT

CHAPTER 18 - OF THE POPISH MASS. HOW IT NOT onLY PROFANES, BUT ANNIHILATES THE LORD’S SUPPER.

CHAPTER 19. - OF THE FIVE SACRAMENTS, FALSELY SO CALLED. THEIR SPURIOUSNESS PROVED, AND THEIR TRUE CHARACTER EXPLAINED.

CHAPTER 20. - OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

GONE HUNDRED APHORISMS

BOOK 1

BOOK 2

BOOK 3

BOOK 4

INDEXES

Index of Scripture References

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JOHN CALVIN'S WORKS IN ENGLISH

This page contains links to digital versions of the major works of John Calvin which have been translated into English. These editions are mid-nineteeth century translations published by the Calvin Translation Society

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