Reformation Heritage Books

This is Francis Turretin's magnum opus, a massive work of Reformed scholasticism. Written originally in Latin with sentences frequently lasting nearly a half a page, Turretin's Institutes are at once familiar, profound, erudite, thorough and precise, detailed, comprehensive, historically significant, and truly Reformed, etc. Turretin organized his Institutes into 20 topics (loci) that range from "Prolegomena" (that is, very necessary introductory considerations) to "The Last Things." Each topic (locus) is organized by specific questions. The work is Elenctic (polemic or argumentitive), for a large chunk of this work is written against the Roman Catholics, Arminians, Socinians, Anabaptists, Molinists and others.

Translated by George Musgrave Giger Edited by James T. Dennison Jr.

FIRST TOPIC: THEOLOGY

SECOND TOPIC: THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

THIRD TOPIC: THE ONE AND TRIUNE GOD

FOURTH TOPIC: THE DECREES OF GOD IN GENERAL AND PREDESTINATION IN PARTICULAR

FIFTH TOPIC: CREATION

SIXTH TOPIC: THE ACTUAL PROVIDENCE OF GOD

SEVENTH TOPIC: ANGELS

EIGHTH TOPIC: THE STATE OF MAN BEFORE THE FALL AND THE COVENANT OF NATURE

NINTH TOPIC: SIN IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR

TENTH TOPIC: THE FREE WILL OF MAN IN A STATE OF SIN

ELEVENTH TOPIC: THE LAW OF GOD

TWELFTH TOPIC: THE COVENANT OF GRACE AND ITS TWOFOLD ECONOMY IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

THIRTEENTH TOPIC: THE PERSON AND STATE OF CHRIST

FOURTEENTH TOPIC: THE MEDIATORIAL OFFICE OF CHRIST

FIFTEENTH TOPIC: CALLING AND FAITH

SIXTEENTH TOPIC: JUSTIFICATION

SEVENTEENTH TOPIC: SANCTIFICATION AND GOOD WORKS

EIGHTEENTH TOPIC: THE CHURCH

NINETEENTH TOPIC: THE SACRAMENTS

TWENTIETH TOPIC: THE LAST THINGS