THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN CALVIN

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
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• 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 - 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