
Book 2, Chapter 5, Sections 1–5 — The Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of Free Will Refuted, Part 1
Sections 1. Absurd fictions of opponents first refuted, and then certain passages of Scripture explained. Answer by a negative. Confirmation...
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Sections 1. Absurd fictions of opponents first refuted, and then certain passages of Scripture explained. Answer by a negative. Confirmation...

Sections 1. Connection of this chapter with the preceding. Augustine’s similitude of a good and bad rider. Question answered in respect to t...

Sections 10. A fourth Objection. Answer. Fifth Objection. Answer. Answer confirmed by many passages of Scripture, and supported by a passage...

Sections 5. Though man has still the faculty of willing, there is no soundness in it. He falls under the bondage of sin necessarily, and yet...

Sections 1. The intellect and will of the whole man corrupt. The term flesh applies not only to the sensual, but also to the higher part of...

Sections 21. Fourth argument. Scripture ascribes the glory of our adoption and salvation to God only. The human intellect blind as to heaven...

Sections 14-20 14. The power of the intellect, secondly, with regard to the arts. Particular gifts in this respect conferred on individuals,...

Sections 9. The language of the ancient writers on the subject of Free Will is, with the exception of that of Augustine, almost unintelligib...

Sections 5. Certain things annexed to Free Will by the ancient theologians, especially the Schoolmen. Many kinds of Free Will according to t...

1. Connection of the previous with the four following chapters. In order to lay a proper foundation for the discussion of free will, two obs...

Sections 8. Definition of original sin. Two parts in the definition. Exposition of the latter part. Original sin exposes us to the wrath of...

Sections 4. In considering this latter part, two points to be considered; 1. How it happened that Adam involved himself and the whole human...

Sections The knowledge of ourselves most necessary. To use it properly we must be divested of pride, and clothed with true humility, which w...

Sections The carnal mind the source of the objections which are raised against the Providence of God. A primary objection, making a distinct...

Sections 11. The use of the foregoing meditation. 12. The second part of the chapter, disposing of two objections. 1. That Scripture represe...

Sections 6. A holy meditation on Divine Providence. 1. All events happen by the ordination of God. 2. All things contribute to the advantage...

Sections 1. Summary of the doctrine of Divine Providence. 1. It embraces the future and the past. 2. It works by means, without means, and a...

Sections 5. Special Providence of God asserted and proved by arguments founded on a consideration of the Divine Justice and Mercy. Proved al...

Sections 1. Even the wicked, under the guidance of carnal sense, acknowledge that God is the Creator. The godly acknowledge not this only, b...

Sections 5. The dreams of the Manichees and of Servetus, as to the origin of the soul, refuted. Also of Osiander, who denies that there is a...

Sections 1. A twofold knowledge of God—viz. before the fall and after it. The former here considered. Particular rules or precautions to b...

Sections 17. Though the devil is always opposed in will and endeavour to the will of God, he can do nothing without his permission and conse...

Sections 12. Use of the doctrine of Scripture concerning the holy angels. 13. The doctrine concerning bad angels or devils reduced to four h...

Sections 7. A kind of prefects over kingdoms and provinces, but specially the guardians of the elect. Not certain that every believer is und...

1. The mere fact of creation should lead us to acknowledge God, but to prevent our falling away to Gentile fictions, God has been pleased to...

Sections 26. Previous refutations further explained. 27. Reply to certain passages produced from Irenaeus. The meaning of Irenaeus. 28. Repl...

Sections 21. Refutation of Arian, Macedonian, and Anti Trinitarian heresies. Caution to be observed. 22. The more modern Anti Trinitarians,...

Sections 16. What view to be taken of the Trinity. The form of Christian baptism proves that there are in one essence. The Arian and Macedon...

Passages from the New Testament in which the Son is acknowledged to be the Lord of Hosts, the Judge of the world, the God of glory, the Crea...

After the definition of the term follows a definition and explanation of the thing meant by it. The distinction of Persons. Proofs of the et...

Sections Scripture, in teaching that the essence of God is immense and spiritual, refutes not only idolaters and the foolish wisdom of the w...

Sections Scripture, in teaching that there is but one God, does not make a dispute about words, but attributes all honour and religious wors...

Sections Whether it is expedient to have images in Christian temples. Absurd defence of the worship of images by the second so-called Counci...

Sections Of the worship of images. Its nature. A pretext of idolaters refuted. Pretexts of the heathen. Genius of idolaters. Evasion of the...

Sections Objection,—That images are the books of the unlearned. Objection answered, 1. Scripture declares images to be teachers of vanity...

Sections God is opposed to idols, that all may know he is the only fit witness to himself. He expressly forbids any attempt to represent him...

Sections Explanation of the knowledge of God resumed. God as manifested in Scripture, the same as delineated in his works. The attributes of...

Sections The temper and error of the Libertines, who take to themselves the name of spiritual, briefly described. Their refutation. 1. The A...

Sections Secondary helps to establish the credibility of Scripture. I. The arrangement of the sacred volume. II. Its dignity. III. Its truth...

Sections The authority of Scripture derived not from men, but from the Spirit of God. Objection, That Scripture depends on the decision of t...

John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion translated by Henry Beveridge. Book 1, Chapter 6. Sections God gives his elect a be...

This chapter consists of two parts: 1. The former, which occupies the first ten sections, divides all the works of God into two great classe...

Sections. 1. The knowledge of God suppressed by ignorance, many falling away into superstition. Such persons, however, inexcusable, because...

Book 1, Chapter 3 from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. 1. The knowledge of God being manifested to all makes the r...

John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1, Chapter 2 . 1. By the knowledge of God, I understand that by which we not o...

John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1, Chapter 1 . 1. Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and soli...