Institutes of the Christian Religion Books 1-4 J. Calvin Audiobook in 1 MP3 DVD

Description: These discs contain MP3 files to play on your computer (PC or Mac) or compatible player. please check your devices documentation for compatibility. Institutes of the Christian Religion Books 1-4John Calvin (1509 - 1564)Translated by John Allen (1771 - 1839) At the head of the list of Calvin’s writings stands his great dogmatic treatise — the Institutes of the Christian Religion. In a very literal sense this book may indeed be called his life-work. It was the first book he published after he had "devoted himself to God," and thus introduces the series of his works consecrated to the propagation of religion. But from its first appearance in the spring of 1536 to the issue of its definitive edition in 1559 — throughout nearly a quarter of a century — Calvin was continually busy with it, revising, expanding, readjusting it, until from a simple little handbook, innocent of constructive principle, it had grown into a bulky but compact and thoroughly organized textbook in theology.The importance to the Protestant cause of the publication of this book can hardly be overstated. It is inadequate praise to describe it, as the Roman Catholic historian, Kampschulte, describes it, as "without doubt the most outstanding and the most influential production in the sphere of dogmatics which the Reformation literature of the sixteenth century presents." This goes without saying. What demands recognition is that the publication of the Institutes was not merely a literary incident but an historical event, big with issues, which have not lost their importance to the present day. By it was given to perplexed, hard-bestead Protestantism an adequate positive programme for its Reformation. What they needed, and what the Institutes did was the disengagement of a principle "from this vortex of ideas," and the development of its consequences. "Such a book," continues M. Buisson, "is equally removed from a pamphlet of Ulrich von Hutten, from the satire of Erasmus, from the popular preaching, mystical and violent, of Luther: it is a work of a theologian in the most learned sense of the term, a religious work undoubtedly, penetrated with an ethical inspiration, but before all, a work of organization and concentration, a code of doctrine for the minister, an arsenal of arguments for simple believers: it is the Summa of Reformed Christianity.""The author's concernment is far more to bring out the logical force and the moral power of his own doctrine than to descant on the weak points of the opposing doctrine. What holds his attention is not the past but the future, — it is the reconstruction of the Church." What wonder, then, that it has retained its influence through all succeeding time? As the first adequate statement of the positive programme of the Reformation movement, the Institutes lies at the foundation of the whole development of Protestant theology and has left an impress on evangelical thought which is ineffaceable. After three centuries and a half, it retains its unquestioned preeminence as the greatest and most influential of all dogmatic treatises. - Summary by Benjamin B Warfield Read by InTheDesert Running Time:56:22:48 in 1 MP3 Audio DVD Book IBook One of the Institutes treats of the knowledge of God, considered as the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of the world, and of every thing contained in it. Prefatory Material and Introduction Printer's Note, Original Translator's Preface Prefatory Address Epistle to Reader and Subject of Present Work Epistle to Reader and Method and Arrangement Book First Argument Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Mutually Connected What It Is to Know God Knowledge of God Naturally Implanted in the Human Mind Knowledge of God Stifled or Corrupted Knowledge of God Conspicuous in Creation Need of Scripture as a Guide and Teacher Testimony of the Spirit Necessary Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved All the Principles of Piety Subverted by Fanatics In Scripture, the True God Opposed, Exclusively Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God God Distinguished from Idols Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons In The Creation Of The World, and All Things in It State in which Man Was Created The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected Use to Be Made of the Doctrine of Providence The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God Book II: Book Two of the Institutes treats of the knowledge of God considered as a Redeemer in Christ and showing man his falls conducts him to Christ the Mediator. Argument Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will Everything Proceeding from the Corrupt Nature How God Works in the Hearts of Men Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of Free Will Redemption for Man Lost to Be Sought in Christ The Law Given Exposition of the Moral Law Christ, Though Known to the Jews Under the Law Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New The Difference Between the Two Testaments Christ, to Perform the Office of Mediator Christ Clothed with the True Substance of Human Nature How Two Natures Constitute the Person of the Mediator Three Things Briefly to Be Regarded in Christ How Christ Performed the Office of Redeemer Christ Rightly and Properly Said to Have Merited Book III: Book Three of the Institutes, "which contains a full exposition of the Third Part of the Apostles’ Creed, treats of the mode of procuring the grace of Christ, the benefits which we derive and the effects which follow from it, or of the operations of the Holy Spirit in regard to our salvation." Argument The Benefits of Christ Made Available to Us Of Faith Regeneration by Faith; Of Repentance Of the Modes of Supplementing Satisfaction The Life of a Christian Man A Summary of the Christian Life Of Bearing the Cross Of Meditating on the Future Life How to Use the Present Life Of Justification by Faith Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment Seat Two Things to Be Observed in Gratuitous Justification The Beginning of Justification The Boasted Merit of Works Subversive Refutation of the Calumnies The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled, The Righteousness of Works Improperly Inferred from Rewards Of Christian Liberty Of Prayer Of the Eternal Election his Doctrine Confirmed by Proofs from Scripture Refutation of the Calumnies Election Confirmed by the Calling of God Of the Last Resurrection Book IV:Book Four of the Institutes discusses "the Church and the Communion of Saints, or of the external means or helps by which God invites us to fellowship with Christ and keeps us in it." This includes Church government, with scathing denunciations of the Papacy and Catholic Church. Argument Of the True Church Comparison Between the False Church and the True Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church Of the State of the Primitive Church...Before Papacy The Ancient Form of Govt Utterly Corrupted Of the Primacy of the Romish See Of the Beginning and Rise of the Romish Papacy Of the Powers of the Church in Articles of Faith Of Councils and Their Authority Of the Power of Making Laws Of the Jurisdiction of the Church Of the Discipline of the Church Of Vows Of the Sacraments Of Baptism Of Paedobaptism Of the Lord's Supper Of the Popish Mass Of the Five Sacraments Falsely So Called Of Civil Government Our Audiobooks are Complete and Unabridged (unless otherwise indicated)Our Audiobooks are always read by real people, never by computers.Please Note: These recorded readings are from the author's original works which are in the public domain. 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