Institutes of the Christian religion

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2 volumes (lxxi, 1734 pages) ; 24 cm

"Reissued 2006 by Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Kentucky"--Title page verso

Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ©1960. (The library of Christian classics ; v. 20-21)

Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, pages 1527-1551) and indexes

V. 1. Introduction -- John Calvin to the reader, 1559 -- Subject matter of the present work -- Prefatory address to King Francis I of France -- Book one, the Knowledge of God the creator -- Book two, the Knowledge of God the redeemer in Christ, first disclosed to the fathers under the law and then to us in the gospel -- Book three, the Way in which we receive the grace of Christ, what benefits come to us from it, and what effects follow -- v. 2. Books III. XX-to IV. XX. Book three continued -- Book four, the External means or aids by which God invites us into the society of Christ and holds us therein