Calvin's magnum opus of Reformed systematic theology. Four books, eighty chapters, on the knowledge of God the Creator, the knowledge of God the Redeemer in Christ, the mode of obtaining the grace of Christ, and the holy catholic church — in the English translation of Henry Beveridge, published 1845 and long since in the public domain.
4 books · 80 chapters · 0 currently drafted
The Institutes of the Christian Religion are John Calvin's mature theological writing — the 1559 final Latin edition, the work he kept revising from 1536 until his death in 1564. The translation hosted here is Henry Beveridge's 1845 English rendering — the standard English-language Institutes for over a century, fully in the public domain, and the version that shaped most Reformed readers in the English-speaking world until the Battles translation of 1960 (which remains under copyright).
This page is the table of contents for that translation. As each book and chapter is brought into the same mobile-readable, Scripture-linked, dictionary-linked reader used for the 1689 LBCF, its card here will move from "Coming soon" to a version chip. The text itself is free to copy, quote, and share — that's the point of putting public-domain Reformed classics back into circulation.
Status: scaffolded with all 80 chapter titles in Beveridge phrasing. Chapter authoring begins next session — priority order: Book 1 ch. 1–6 (knowledge of God), Book 3 ch. 21–24 (predestination), Book 4 ch. 14–17 (sacraments). Full source available at CCEL.