The institution of Christian religion, vvrytten in Latine by maister Ihon Caluin, and translated into Englysh according to the authors last edition. Seen and allowed according to the order appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions

¶ In the first boke which entreateth of the know∣lege of God the Creator. Are conteined, XViii. Chapiters.

• 1 THat the knowlege of God, and of our selues, are thinges con∣ioyned: and how they be lincked the one with the other.
• 2 What it is to know God, and to what ende tendeth the know∣lege of hym.
• 3 That the knowelege of God is naturally planted in the mindes of men.
• 4 That the same knowlege is either choked, or corrupted, partly by ig∣norance, and partly by malice.
• 5 That the knowlege of God doth shiningly appeare in the making of the world and in the continual gouernement therof.
• 6 That, to attaine to God the Creator, it is nedeful to haue y^e Scrip∣ture to be our guide and maistresse.
• 7 By what testimonie the Scripture ought to be stablished, that is by the witnesse of the Holy ghost, that the authoritie therof maye re∣maine certaine. And that it is a wicked inuention to say that the Credit therof doth hang vpon the iudgement of the Chirche.
• 8 That so farr as mans reason may beare, there are sufficient proues to stablishe the credit of Scripture.
• 9 That those phanaticall men, which forsaking Scripture, resort vn∣to reuelation, doe ouerthrowe al the principles of godlinesse.
• 10 That the Scripture, to correct all superstitiō, doth in comparison set the true God against al the gods of y^e gentiles, reckening him for none of them.
• 11 That it is vnlawful to attribute vnto God a visible forme, and that generally, they forsake God, so many as doe erecte to themselues any images.
• 12 That God is seuerally discerned from idols, that he may be only and wholy worshipped.
• 13 That there is taught in the Scriptures one essence of God from the very creation, which essence conteineth in it three persons.
• 14 That the Scripture euen in the creation of the world and of all thinges doth by certaine markes put difference betwene the true God, and fayned gods.
• 15 What a one man was created: wherein there is entreated of the po∣wers of the soule, of the image of God, of free wil and of the firste integritie of nature.
• 16 That God by hys power dothe nourishe and mainteine the worlde, which himselfe hath created, and by hys prouidence doeth gouerne all the partes therof.
• 17 Where to and to what ende this doctrine is to be applied, that we may be certaine of the profit therof.
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• 18 That God doth so vse the seruice of wicked men, and so boweth their myndes to put his iudgement in execution, that yet styll hymselfe remaineth pure from all spott.