The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Table of contents

1. 01 Title Page 51 words
2. 02 The Printers to the Readers 175 words
3. 03 John Calvin to the Reader 939 words
4. 04 To the Most Mighty and Noble Prince Francis, the Most Christian King of France, His Sovereign Lord, John Calvin Wishes Peace and Salvation in Christ 8,564 words
5. 05 Chapter 1. That the Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Are Things Joined, and How They Are Linked the One with the Other 1,266 words
6. 06 Chapter 2. What It Is to Know God, and to What End the Knowledge of Him Tends 1,860 words
7. 07 Chapter 3. That the Knowledge of God Is Naturally Planted in the Minds of Men 826 words
8. 08 Chapter 4: That the Same Knowledge Is Either Choked or Corrupted, Partly by Ignorance and Partly by Malice 1,852 words
9. 09 Chapter 5. That the Knowledge of God Does Shiningly Appear in the Making of the World and in the Continual Government Thereof 6,900 words
10. 10 Chapter 6. That, to Attain to God the Creator, It Is Needful to Have the Scripture as Our Guide and Teacher 1,947 words
11. 11 Chapter 7. By What Testimony the Scripture Ought to Be Established, That Is by the Witness of the Holy Spirit, That the Authority Thereof May Remain Certain. And That It Is a Wicked Invention to Say That the Credit Thereof Depends upon the Judgment of the Church 2,981 words
12. 12 Chapter 8. That So Far as Human Reason May Bear, There Are Sufficient Proofs to Establish the Credit of Scripture 4,848 words
13. 13 Chapter 9. That Those Fanatical Men, Who Forsaking Scripture Resort to Revelation, Do Overthrow All the Principles of Godliness 1,560 words
14. 14 Chapter 10: That the Scripture, to Correct All Superstition, Does in Comparison Set the True God against All the Gods of the Gentiles, Reckoning Him as None of Them 1,248 words
15. 15 Chapter 11: That It Is Unlawful to Attribute to God a Visible Form, and That Generally They Forsake God, So Many as Do Erect to Themselves Any Images 7,074 words
16. 16 Chapter 12. That God Is Separately Discerned from Idols, That He May Be Only and Wholly Worshipped 1,674 words
17. 17 Chapter 13: That There Is Taught in the Scriptures One Essence of God from the Very Creation, Which Essence Contains in It Three Persons 16,871 words
18. 18 Chapter 14. That the Scripture, Even in the Creation of the World and of All Things, Does by Certain Marks Put a Difference Between the True God and Invented Gods 9,902 words
19. 19 Chapter 15. What Man Was Created to Be, Where Is Treated of the Powers of the Soul, of the Image of God, of Free Will, and of the First Integrity of Nature 6,116 words
20. 20 Chapter 16. That God by His Power Maintains and Upholds the World Which He Himself Has Created, and by His Providence Does Govern All the Parts Thereof 5,986 words
21. 21 Chapter 17. To What End This Doctrine Is to Be Applied, That We May Be Certain of the Profit Thereof 8,214 words
22. 22 Chapter 18. That God Does So Use the Service of Wicked Men, and So Bends Their Minds to Execute His Judgments, That Yet Still He Himself Remains Pure from All Spot 4,018 words
23. 23 Chapter 1: That by Adam's Sin and Falling Away, Mankind Became Accursed and Did Degenerate from His First Estate, Wherein Is Treated of Original Sin 5,494 words
24. 24 Chapter 2: That Man Is Now Spoiled of the Freedom of Will, and Made Subject to Miserable Bondage 13,470 words
25. 25 Chapter 3. That Out of the Corrupt Nature of Man Proceeds Nothing but Damnable 8,794 words
26. 26 Chapter 4. How God Works in the Hearts of Men 3,105 words
27. 27 Chapter 5. A Refutation of the Objections That Are Commonly Brought in Defense of Free Will 10,383 words
28. 28 Chapter 6. That Man Being Lost, Must Seek Redemption in Christ 3,243 words
29. 29 Chapter 7. That the Law Was Given, Not to Hold the People Still in It, but to Nourish the Hope of Salvation in Christ Until His Coming 7,962 words
30. 30 Chapter 8: An Exposition of the Moral Law 24,387 words
31. 31 Chapter 9. That Christ, Although He Was Known to the Jews Under the Law, Yet Was Delivered Only by the Gospel 2,351 words
32. 32 Chapter 10. Of the Likeness of the Old and New Testaments 9,490 words
33. 33 Chapter 11: Of the Difference of the One Testament from the Other 6,527 words
34. 34 Chapter 12. That It Was Necessary That Christ, to Perform the Office of the Mediator, Should Be Made Man 4,514 words
35. 35 Chapter 13. That Christ Took Upon Him the True Substance of the Flesh of Man 3,192 words
36. 36 Chapter 14. How the Two Natures of the Mediator Make One Person 5,036 words
37. 37 Chapter 15: That We May Know to What End Christ Was Sent of His Father, and What He Brought Us — Three Things Are Principally to Be Considered in Him: His Prophetical Office, His Kingdom, and His Priesthood 3,956 words
38. 38 Chapter 16: How Christ Has Fulfilled the Office of Redeemer, to Purchase Salvation for Us — Wherein Is Treated of His Death, and Resurrection, and His Ascending into Heaven 10,985 words
39. 39 Chapter 17. That It Is Truly and Properly Said That Christ Has Deserved God's Favor and Salvation for Us 2,925 words
40. 40 Chapter 1: That Those Things Which Are Spoken of Christ Do Profit Us by the Secret Working of the Holy Ghost 2,130 words
41. 41 Chapter 2: Of Faith, Wherein Both Is Set the Definition of It, and the Properties That It Has Are Declared 22,367 words
42. 42 Chapter 3: That We Are Regenerated by Faith, Wherein Is Treated of Repentance 12,115 words
43. 43 Chapter 4. That All That the Sophists Babble in Their Schools of Penance Is Far from the Purity of the Gospel. Where Is Treated of Confession and Satisfaction 18,469 words
44. 44 Chapter 5. Of the Supplementings Which They Add to Satisfactions, as Pardons and Purgatory 5,949 words
45. 45 Chapter 6. Of the Life of a Christian Man, and First by What Arguments the Scripture Exhorts Us to It 2,257 words
46. 46 Chapter 7. The Sum of a Christian Life, Where Is Treated of the Forsaking of Ourselves 5,264 words
47. 47 Chapter 8. Of the Bearing of the Cross, Which Is a Part of the Forsaking of Ourselves 4,486 words
48. 48 Chapter 9. Of the Meditation of the Life to Come 3,112 words
49. 49 Chapter 10. How We Ought to Use This Present Life and the Helps Thereof 2,355 words
50. 50 Chapter 11. Of the Justification of Faith, and First of the Definition of the Name and of the Thing 12,005 words
51. 51 Chapter 12. That, to the End We May Be Fully Persuaded of the Free Justification, We Must Lift Up Our Minds to the Judgment Seat of God 3,759 words
52. 52 Chapter 13. That There Are Two Things to Be Marked in Free Justification 2,564 words
53. 53 Chapter 14. What Is the Beginning of Justification, and the Continual Proceedings Thereof 8,628 words
54. 54 Chapter 15. That Those Things That Are Commonly Boasted Concerning the Merits of Works Do Overthrow as Well the Praise of God in Giving of Righteousness, as Also the Assurance of Salvation 3,850 words
55. 55 Chapter 16. A Refutation of the Slanders Whereby the Papists Go About to Bring This Doctrine into Hatred 2,133 words
56. 56 Chapter 17. The Agreement of the Promises of the Law and the Gospel 8,043 words
57. 57 Chapter 18: That from the Reward, the Righteousness of Works Is Ill Gathered 5,531 words
58. 58 Chapter 19: Of Christian Liberty 6,784 words
59. 59 Chapter 20. Of Prayer, Which Is the Chief Exercise of Faith, and Whereby We Daily Receive the Benefits of God 31,573 words
60. 60 Chapter 21. Of the Eternal Election, Whereby God Has Predestined Some to Salvation and Others to Destruction 4,959 words
61. 61 Chapter 22. A Confirmation of This Doctrine by Testimonies of the Scripture 6,695 words
62. 62 Chapter 23. A Refutation of the Slanders With Which This Doctrine Has Always Been Wrongfully Burdened 7,510 words
63. 63 Chapter 24. That Election Is Established by the Calling of God, but That the Reprobate Do Bring upon Themselves the Just Destruction to Which They Are Appointed 9,091 words
64. 64 Chapter 25: Of the Last Resurrection 9,520 words
65. 65 Chapter 1. Of the True Church, With Which We Ought to Keep Unity, Because It Is the Mother of All the Godly 12,561 words
66. 66 Chapter 2: A Comparison of the False Church with the True Church 5,183 words
67. 67 Chapter 3. Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church, and of Their Election and Office 6,290 words
68. 68 Chapter 4: Of the State of the Old Church, and of the Manner of Governing That Was in Use before the Papacy 5,812 words
69. 69 Chapter 5. That the Old Form of Government Is Utterly Overthrown by the Tyranny of the Papacy 7,367 words
70. 70 Chapter 6. Of the Supremacy of the See of Rome 6,359 words
71. 71 Chapter 7. Of the Beginning and Increasing of the Papacy of Rome, Until It Advanced Itself to This Height, Whereby Both the Liberty of the Church Has Been Oppressed, and All the Right Government Thereof Overthrown 12,517 words
72. 72 Chapter 8. Of the Power of the Church as Touching the Articles of Faith, and With How Unbridled a Licentiousness It Has in the Papacy Been Wrested to Corrupt All Purity of Doctrine 6,824 words
73. 73 Chapter 9: Of Councils and Their Authority 5,396 words
74. 74 Chapter 10. Of the Power in Making of Laws, Where the Pope and His Have Used a Most Cruel Tyranny and Butchery upon Souls 13,698 words
75. 75 Chapter 11: Of the Jurisdiction of the Church, and the Abuse Thereof, Such as Is Seen in the Papacy 7,484 words
76. 76 Chapter 12. Of the Discipline of the Church, of Which the Chief Use Is in the Censures and Excommunication 10,242 words
77. 77 Chapter 13. Of Vows, by Rash Promising of Which Each Man Has Miserably Entangled Himself 9,874 words
78. 78 Chapter 14. Of Sacraments 11,268 words
79. 79 Chapter 15. Of Baptism 8,041 words
80. 80 Chapter 16. That the Baptism of Infants Does Very Well Agree with the Institution of Christ and the Nature of the Sign 15,049 words
81. 81 Chapter 17. Of the Holy Supper of Christ, and What It Avails Us 29,058 words
82. 82 Chapter 18. Of the Popish Mass, by Which Sacrilege the Supper of Christ Has Not Only Been Profaned, but Also Brought to Nothing 8,171 words
83. 83 Chapter 19. Of the Five Falsely Named Sacraments, Where Is Declared That the Other Five Which Have Been Until Now Commonly Taken for Sacraments Are Not Sacraments, and Then Is Showed What Manner of Things They Be 14,630 words
84. 84 Chapter 20 14,135 words