Book 1, Chapter 1: The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Mutually Connected –...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–01.mp3John 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 solid Wisdom,...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 2: What it is to Know God, Tendency of this Knowledge
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–02.mp3John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1, Chapter 2. 1. By the knowledge of God, I understand that by which we not only conceive...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 3: The Knowledge of God Naturally…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–03.mp3Book 1, Chapter 3 from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. 1. The knowledge of God being manifested to all makes the reprobate...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 4: The Knowledge of God Stifled or Corrupted, Ignorantly or...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–04.mp3Sections. 1. The knowledge of God suppressed by ignorance, many falling away into superstition. Such persons, however, inexcusable, because their...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 5: The Knowledge of God Conspicuous in the Creation, and...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–05.mp3This chapter consists of two parts: 1. The former, which occupies the first ten sections, divides all the works of God into two great classes, and...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 6: The Need of Scripture, as a Guide and Teacher, in Coming...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–06.mp3John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion translated by Henry Beveridge. Book 1, Chapter 6. Sections God gives his elect a better help to...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 7: The Testimony of the Spirit Necessary to Give Full...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–07.mp3Sections The authority of Scripture derived not from men, but from the Spirit of God. Objection, That Scripture depends on the decision of the...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 8: The Credibility of Scripture…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–08.mp3Sections Secondary helps to establish the credibility of Scripture. I. The arrangement of the sacred volume. II. Its dignity. III. Its truth. IV....
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 9: All the Principles of Piety Subverted by Fanatics, Who...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–09.mp3Sections The temper and error of the Libertines, who take to themselves the name of spiritual, briefly described. Their refutation. 1. The Apostles...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 10: In Scripture, the True God Opposed, Exclusively, to all...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–10.mp3Sections Explanation of the knowledge of God resumed. God as manifested in Scripture, the same as delineated in his works. The attributes of God as...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 11, Sections 1-4: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–11_01_04.mp3Sections 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...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 11, Sections 5-8: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–11_05_08.mp3Sections Objection,—That images are the books of the unlearned. Objection answered, 1. Scripture declares images to be teachers of vanity...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 11, Sections 9-12: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–11_09–12.mp3Sections Of the worship of images. Its nature. A pretext of idolaters refuted. Pretexts of the heathen. Genius of idolaters. Evasion of the...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 11, Sections 13-16: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–11_13–16.mp3Sections Whether it is expedient to have images in Christian temples. Absurd defence of the worship of images by the second so-called Council...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 12: God Distinguished from Idols…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–12.mp3Sections Scripture, in teaching that there is but one God, does not make a dispute about words, but attributes all honour and religious worship to...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 13, Sections 1-5: The Unity of the Divine Essence…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–13_01–05.mp3Sections Scripture, in teaching that the essence of God is immense and spiritual, refutes not only idolaters and the foolish wisdom of the...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 13, Sections 6-10: The Unity of the Divine Essence…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–13_06–10.mp3 After the definition of the term follows a definition and explanation of the thing meant by it. The distinction of Persons. Proofs of the...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 13, Sections 11-15: The Unity of the Divine Essence
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–13_11–15.mp3 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...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 13, Sections 16-20: The Unity of the Divine Essence
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–13_16–20.mp3Sections 16. What view to be taken of the Trinity. The form of Christian baptism proves that there are in one essence. The Arian and...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 13, Sections 21-25: The Unity of the Divine Essence
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–13_21–25.mp3Sections 21. Refutation of Arian, Macedonian, and Anti Trinitarian heresies. Caution to be observed. 22. The more modern Anti Trinitarians,...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 13, Sections 26-29: The Unity of the Divine Essence
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–13_26–29.mp3Sections 26. Previous refutations further explained. 27. Reply to certain passages produced from Irenaeus. The meaning of Irenaeus. 28. Reply...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 14, Sections 1-6: In the Creation of the World…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–14_01–06.mp31. 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...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 14, Sections 7-11: In the Creation of the World…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–14_07–11.mp3Sections 7. A kind of prefects over kingdoms and provinces, but specially the guardians of the elect. Not certain that every believer is under...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 14, Sections 12-16: In the Creation of the World
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–14_12–16.mp3Sections 12. Use of the doctrine of Scripture concerning the holy angels. 13. The doctrine concerning bad angels or devils reduced to four...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 14, Sections 17-22: In the Creation of the World…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–14_17–22.mp3Sections 17. Though the devil is always opposed in will and endeavour to the will of God, he can do nothing without his permission and...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 15, Sections 1-4 – State in which Man was Created
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–15_01–04.mp3Sections 1. A twofold knowledge of God—viz. before the fall and after it. The former here considered. Particular rules or precautions to be...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 15, Sections 5-8 – State in which Man was Created
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–15_05–08.mp3Sections 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 any...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 16, Sections 1-4 – The World Created by God…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–16_01–04.mp3Sections 1. Even the wicked, under the guidance of carnal sense, acknowledge that God is the Creator. The godly acknowledge not this only, but...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 16, Sections 5-9 – The World Created by God
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–16_05–09.mp3Sections 5. Special Providence of God asserted and proved by arguments founded on a consideration of the Divine Justice and Mercy. Proved also...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 17, Sections 1-5 – Use to be Made of the Doctrine of Providence
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–17_01–05.mp3Sections 1. Summary of the doctrine of Divine Providence. 1. It embraces the future and the past. 2. It works by means, without means, and...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 17, Sections 6-10 – Use to be Made of the Doctrine of...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–17_06–10.mp3Sections 6. A holy meditation on Divine Providence. 1. All events happen by the ordination of God. 2. All things contribute to the advantage...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 17, Sections 11-14 – Use to be Made of the Doctrine of...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–17_11–14.mp3Sections 11. The use of the foregoing meditation. 12. The second part of the chapter, disposing of two objections. 1. That Scripture...
View ArticleBook 1, Chapter 18 – The Instrumentality of the World…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr1–18.mp3Sections The carnal mind the source of the objections which are raised against the Providence of God. A primary objection, making a distinction...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 1, Sections 1-3 – Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr2–01_01–03.mp3Sections The knowledge of ourselves most necessary. To use it properly we must be divested of pride, and clothed with true humility, which...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 1, Sections 4-7 – Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr2–01_04–07.mp3Sections 4. In considering this latter part, two points to be considered; 1. How it happened that Adam involved himself and the whole human...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 1, Sections 8-11 – Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr2–01_08–11.mp3Sections 8. Definition of original sin. Two parts in the definition. Exposition of the latter part. Original sin exposes us to the wrath of...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 2, Sections 1-4 – Man Now Deprived of Human Will…
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr2–02_01–04.mp31. Connection of the previous with the four following chapters. In order to lay a proper foundation for the discussion of free will, two...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 2, Sections 5-8 – Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr2–02_05–08.mp3Sections 5. Certain things annexed to Free Will by the ancient theologians, especially the Schoolmen. Many kinds of Free Will according to...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 2, Sections 9-13 – Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/icr/icr2–02_09–13.mp3Sections 9. The language of the ancient writers on the subject of Free Will is, with the exception of that of Augustine, almost...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 2, Sections 14-20 – Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/rc/rc038.mp3Sections 14–20 14. The power of the intellect, secondly, with regard to the arts. Particular gifts in this respect conferred on individuals, and...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 2, Sections 21-27 — Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/rc/rc039.mp3Sections 21. Fourth argument. Scripture ascribes the glory of our adoption and salvation to God only. The human intellect blind as to heavenly things...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 3, Sections 1-4 – Everything Proceeding from the Corrupt...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/rc/rc040.mp3Sections 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 the soul....
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 3, Sections 5-9 – Everything Proceeding from the Corrupt...
http://reformedforum.s3.amazonaws.com/rc/rc041.mp3Sections 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...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 3, Sections 10–14 — Everything Proceeding from the Corrupt...
http://traffic.libsyn.com/reformedforum/rc042.mp3Sections 10. A fourth Objection. Answer. Fifth Objection. Answer. Answer confirmed by many passages of Scripture, and supported by a passage from...
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 4, Sections 1–8 — How God Works in the Hearts of Men
http://traffic.libsyn.com/reformedforum/rc043.mp3Sections 1. Connection of this chapter with the preceding. Augustine’s similitude of a good and bad rider. Question answered in respect to the devil. 2....
View ArticleBook 2, Chapter 5, Sections 1–5 — The Arguments Usually Alleged in Support of...
http://traffic.libsyn.com/reformedforum/rc044.mp3Sections 1. Absurd fictions of opponents first refuted, and then certain passages of Scripture explained. Answer by a negative. Confirmation of the...
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