Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume I
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
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- Written by the author
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- Clean text · 18 illegible passages, excluded from answers
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- ~410,000 words · 1,971 passages
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What it is about
The ordered exposition of the whole Reformed doctrine: the knowledge of God and of ourselves, the Fall, Christ, grace, the Church and the civil power.
Context and history
The first edition, of 1536, was a small book of six chapters written by a man of twenty-six; the last, of 1559, has eighty of them across four books. Calvin kept returning to it for twenty-three years, and the text read today is that final hand. He also made a French version of his own, which is among the works that shaped modern French prose.
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Translated from the original Latin, and collated with the author’s last edition in French, by John Allen Sixth American Edition, Revised and Corrected. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication CONTENTS Advertisement. The Translator’s Preface. The Author’s Preface to An Edition Published In The Year 1559, With His Last Corrections And Additions. Dedication. General Syllabus. Book I. On The Knowledge Of God The Creator. Argument. Chapter I. The Connection Between The Knowledge Of God And The Knowledge Of Ourselves. Chapter II. The Nature And Tendency Of The Knowledge Of God. Chapter III. The Human Mind Naturally Endued With The Knowledge Of God. Chapter IV. This Knowledge Extinguished Or Corrupted, Partly By Ignorance, Partly By Wickedness. Chapter V. The Knowledge Of God Conspicuous In The Formation And Continual Government Of The World. Chapter VI. The Guidance And Teaching Of The Scripture Necessary To Lead To The Knowledge Of God The Creator. Chapter VII. The Testimony Of The Spirit Necessary To Confirm The Scripture, In Order To The Complete Establishment Of Its Authority. The Suspension Of Its Authority On The Judgment Of The Church, An Impious Fiction. Chapter VIII. Rational Proofs To Establish The Belief Of The Scripture. Chapter IX. The Fanaticism Which Discards The Scripture, Under The Pretence Of Resorting To Immediate Revelations, Subversive Of Every Principle Of Piety. Chapter X. All Idolatrous Worship Discountenanced In The Scripture, By Its Exclusive Opposition Of The True God To All The Fictitious Deities Of The Heathen. Chapter XI. Unlawfulness Of Ascribing To God A Visible Form. All Idolatry A Defection From The True God.
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