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Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 2

John Calvin, translated by John Allen · 1559 (Allen’s translation 1813)

Books III.14–IV: justification, Christian liberty, prayer, election and the resurrection, then the church, its ministry and the sacraments.

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Book III44 pages

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 (part 1 of 3)
Chapter XX. On Prayer, the Principal Exercise of Faith, and the Medium of Our Daily Reception of Divine Blessings (part 2 of 3)
Chapter XX. On Prayer, the Principal Exercise of Faith, and the Medium of Our Daily Reception of Divine Blessings (part 3 of 3)
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
Argument
Chapter I. The True Church, and the Necessity of Our Union with Her, Being the Mother of All the Pious (part 1 of 2)
Chapter I. The True Church, and the Necessity of Our Union with Her, Being the Mother of All the Pious (part 2 of 2)
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 (part 1 of 2)
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 (part 2 of 2)
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 (part 1 of 2)
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 (part 2 of 2)
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 (part 1 of 2)
Chapter XIV. The Sacraments (part 2 of 2)
Chapter XV. Baptism
Chapter XVI. Pædobaptism Perfectly Consistent with the Institution of Christ and the Nature of the Sign (part 1 of 2)
Chapter XVI. Pædobaptism Perfectly Consistent with the Institution of Christ and the Nature of the Sign (part 2 of 2)
Chapter XVII. The Lord’s Supper and Its Advantages (part 1 of 3)
Chapter XVII. The Lord’s Supper and Its Advantages (part 2 of 3)
Chapter XVII. The Lord’s Supper and Its Advantages (part 3 of 3)
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 (part 1 of 2)
Chapter XIX. The Five Other Ceremonies, Falsely Called Sacraments, Proved Not to Be Sacraments; Their Nature Explained (part 2 of 2)
Chapter XX. On Civil Government (part 1 of 2)
Chapter XX. On Civil Government (part 2 of 2)

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 2, trans. John Allen (1813). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #64392).

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