Table of Contents
- Translator's Note
- Introduction
- John Calvin to the Reader - 1559
- Subject Matter of the Present Work
- Prefatory Address to King Francis I of France
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Book 1: The Knowledge of God the Creator
- 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 Has Been 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 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 It's Parts Governed by His Providence.
- Chapter 17: Uses 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 2: The Knowledge of God the Redeemer in Christ, First Disclosed to the Fathers Under the Law, and Then to Us in the Gospel
Book 3: The Way in Which we Receive the Grace of Christ: What Benefits Come to Us From It. and What Effects Follow
Book 4: The External Means or Aids by Which God Invites Us Into the Society of Christ and Holds Us Therein
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