Outlining Calvin’s Institutes

FOUR BOOKS (80 CHAPTERS)

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Book One – 18 Chapters (Of the knowledge of God the creator.)

Book Two – 17 Chapters (Of the knowledge of God the redeemer, in Christ, as first manifested to the fathers under the law, and thereafter to us under the gospel.)

Book Three – 25 Chapters (The mode of obtaining the grace of Christ. The benefits it confers, and the effects resulting from it.)

Book Four – 20 Chapters (Of the external means or helps by which God allures us into fellowship with Christ, and keeps us in it.)

Outlining Witsius

Witsius’ Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man
4 BOOKS (50 CHAPTERS)

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Book 1. (9 Chapters)

1. Of the Divine Covenants in General
2. Of the Contracting Parties in the Covenant of Works
3. Of the Law, or Conditions, of the Covenant of Works
4. Of the Promises of the Covenant of Works
5. Of the Penal Sanction
6. Of the Sacraments of the Covenant of Works
7. Of the First Sabbath
8. Of the Violation of the Covenant of Works on the part of Man
9. Of the Abrogation of the Covenant of Works on the part of God

Book 2. (10 Chapters)

1. Introduction to the Covenant of Grace
2. Of the Covenant between God the Father and the Son
3. The nature of the Covenant between the Father and the Son, more fully explained
4. Of the Person of the Surety
5. Of the Suretiship and Satisfaction of Christ
6. What Sufferings of Christ are Satisfactory
7. Of the Efficacy of Christ’s Satisfaction
8. Of the Necessity of Christ’s Satisfaction
9. Of the Persons for whom Christ engaged and satisfied
10. After what manner Christ used the Sacraments

Book 3. (14 Chapters)

1. Of the Covenant of God with the Elect
2. Of the Oneness of the Covenant of Grace, as to its Substance
3. Of the Different Economies or Dispensations of the Covenant of Grace
4. Of Election
5. Of Effectual Calling
6. Of Regeneration
7. Of Faith
8. Of Justification
9. Of Spiritual Peace
10. Of Adoption
11. Of the Spirit of Adoption
12. Of Sanctification
13. Of Conservation
14. Of Glorification

Book 4. (17 Chapters)

1. Of the Doctrine of Salvation in the first age of the world
2. Of the Doctrine of Grace under Noah
3. Of the Doctrine of Grace from Abraham to Moses
4. Of the Decalogue
5. Of the Doctrine of the Prophets
6. Of the Types
7. Of the Sacraments of Grace down to Abraham
8. Of Circumcision
9. Of the Passover
10. Of the extraordinary Sacraments in the Wilderness
11. Of the Blessings of the Old Testament
12. Of the Imperfections falsely ascribed to the Old Testament
13. Of the Real Defects of the Old Testament
14. Of the Abrogation of the Old Testament
15. Of the Benefits of the New Testament
16. Of Baptism
17. Of the Lord’s Supper

Outlining Turretin

TWENTY TOPICS (328 Questions)

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Topic 1 – Theology (14 Questions)

Topic 2 – The Holy Scriptures (21 Questions)

Topic 3 – The One and Triune God (31 Questions)

Topic 4 – The Decrees of God in General and Predestination in Particular (18 Questions)

Topic 5 – Creation (14 Questions)

Topic 6 – The Actual Providence of God (9 Questions)

Topic 7 – Angels (9 Questions)

Topic 8 – The State of Man Before the Fall and the Covenant of Nature (7 Questions)

Topic 9 – Sin in General and in Particular (15 Questions)

Topic 10 – The Free Will of Man in a State of Sin (5 Questions)

Topic 11 – The Law of God (26 Questions)

Topic 12 – The Covenant of Grace and its Twofold Economy in the Old and New Testaments (12 Questions)

Topic 13 – The Person and State of Christ (19 Questions)

Topic 14 – The Mediatorial Office of Christ (18 Questions)

Topic 15 – Calling and Faith (17 Questions)

Topic 16 – Justification (10 Questions)

Topic 17 – Sanctification and Good Works (5 Questions)

Topic 18 – The Church (34 Questions)

Topic 19 – The Sacraments (31 Questions)

Topic 20 – The Last Things (13 Questions)

The nine books of doctrine and practice

Holy Bible, AV1611

Institutes of the Christian Religion – Calvin

Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man – Witsius

Fourth Way – Ouspensky

On War – Carl von Clausewitz

Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

Iliad and Odyssey – Homer

History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides

Lives – Plutarch