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OF THE

CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

BY

JOHN CALVIN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, AND COLLATED WITH THE AUTHOR'S LAST EDITION IN FRENCH,

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BOOK IV.

On the external Means or Aids by which God calls us inte Communion with Christ, and retains us in it.

ARGUMENT.

THREE parts of the Apostles' Creed, respecting God the Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, have been explained in the former books. This last book is an exposition of what remains, relating to the Holy Catholic Church, and the Communion of Saints. The chapters contained in it may be conveniently arranged in three grand divisions:

I. The Church.

II. The Sacraments.

III. Civil Government.

The First Division, extending to the end of the thirteenth chapter, contains many particulars, which, however, may all be referred to four principal heads.

I. The marks of the Church, or the criteria by which it may be distinguished, in order to our cultivation of union with itChap. I. II.

II. The government of the church-Chap. III-VII.

1. The order of government in the church-Chap. III.

2. The form practised by the ancient Christians-Chap. IV.
3. The nature of the present ecclesiastical government under
the Papacy-Chap. V. The primacy of the Pope-Chap.
VI. And the degrees of his advancement to this tyrannical
power-Chap. VII.

III. The power of the church-Chap. VIII-XI.

1. Relating to articles of faith,—which resides either in the respective bishops-Chap. VIII.—or in the church at large, represented in councils-Chap. IX.

2. In making laws-Chap. X.

3. In ecclesiastical jurisdiction-Chap. XI.

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