Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Original 2-vol. pagination retained.

Translation of: Institutio Christianae religionis.

Reprint, with new introd. Originally published in 2 vols.: Edinburgh : Calvin Translation Society, 1845-1846.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Theologian par excellence, Calvin is best known for his Institutes of the Christian Religion, a theological introduction to the Bible and vindication of Reformation principles. Beveridges 1845 translation of Calvins magnum opus is now available in a one-volume format that retains the pagination of the original two volumes.

Prefatory address by John Calvin to Francis I., King of France -- The epistle of Calvin to the reader, prefixed to the second edition -- Subject of the present work, by Calvin -- Calvin's epistle to the reader, prefixed to the last edition revised by the author -- Method and arrangement, or subject of the whole work -- General index of the chapters -- Book first: Of the knowledge of God the Creator, the argument --

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 -- the argument -- Book third: The mode of obtaining the grace of Christ. The benefits it confers, and the effects resulting from it -- the argument -- The mode of obtaining the grace of Christ. The benefits it confers, and the effects resulting from it -- Book fourth: Of the Holy Catholic Church, the argument -- One hundred aphorisms -- containing, within a narrow compass, the substance and order of the four books of the Institutes of the Christian Religion.