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Table of Contents Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Vol 1) Institutes of Elenctic Theology Table of Contents Tables of Abbreviations and Transliteration Hebrew Transliteration Table Greek Transliteration Table Scripture Abbreviations Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments Turretin’s Dedication Turretin’s Preface to the Reader 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 Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Vol 2) Institutes of Elenctic Theology Table of Contents 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 Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Vol 3) Institutes of Elenctic Theology Table of Contents EIGHTEENTH TOPIC: The Church NINETEENTH TOPIC: The Sacraments TWENTIETH TOPIC: The Last Things The Life and Career of Francis Turretin Funeral Oration of Benedict Pictet Concerning the Life and Death of Francis Turretin George Musgrave Giger: A Biographical Sketch Sources for the Life of George Musgrave Giger Biographical Dictionary Index of Proper Names Index of Subjects Index of Scripture and Apocrypha Index of Significant Hebrew Words Index of Significant Greek Words Index of Works Cited I E T NSTITUTES OF LENCTIC HEOLOGY BY Francis Turretin Pastor in the Church and Academy of Geneva and S. S. Professor of Theology TRANSLATED BY George Musgrave Giger Princeton University EDITED BY James T. Dennison, Jr. Westminster Theological Seminary in California V 1 OLUME F T T T IRST HROUGH ENTH OPICS PUBLISHING P.O. BOX 817 • PHILLIPSBURG • NEW JERSEY 08865-0817 Copyright © 1992, 1994, 1997 by James T. Dennison, Jr. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, except for brief quotations for the purpose of review, comment, or scholarship, without written permission from the publisher, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, P.O. Box 817, Phillipsburg, New Jersey 08865. The editor acknowledges permission from the following publishers to use excerpts from their publications: Baker Book House, for material from Francis Turretin, The Doctrine of Scripture. Translated and edited by John W. Beardslee III. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1981. Harvard University Press, for material from the Loeb Classical Library. Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. 1929. Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G.G. Ramsey. 1979. Ovid: Fasti. Translated by James G. Frazer. 1976. Prudentius. Translated by H.J. Thomson. 1949. Hesiod. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. 1914. Cicero, De Natura Deorum. Translated by H. Rackham. 1972. ———. De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Divinitatione. Translated by William A. Falconer. 1971. Pliny, Natural History. Translated by H. Rackham. 1967. Virgil. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. 1974. Seneca, Moral Essays. Translated by John W. Basore. 1970. The editor acknowledges permission from Harvard University Press to use excerpts from the Loeb Classical Library. Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G.G. Ramsey. 1979. Seneca, Moral Essays. Translated by John W. Basore. 1970. Virgil, Aeneid. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. 1974. Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars. Translated by J.C. Rolfe. 1970. Ovid, Fasti. Translated by James G. Frazer. 1976. All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Turrettini, François, 1623–1687. [Institutio theologiae elencticae. English] Institutes of elenctic theology / by Francis Turretin; translated by George Musgrave Giger; edited by James T. Dennison, Jr. p. cm. Translation of: Institutio theologiae elencticae. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: v. 1. First through tenth topics. —v. 2. Eleventh through seventeenth topics. —v. 3. Eighteenth through twentieth topics. ISBN-10: 0-87552-451-6 (v. 1) ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-451-1 (v. 1) ISBN-10: 0-87552-452-4 (v. 2) ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-452-8 (v. 2) ISBN-10: 0-87552-453-2 (v. 3) ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-453-5 (v. 3) 1. Reformed Church—Doctrines—Early works to 1800. 2. Theology, Doctrinal—Early works to 1800. 3. Catholic Church—Controversial literature—Early works to 1800. I. Giger, George Musgrave, 1822–1865. II. Dennison, James T., 1943–. III. Title. BX9421.T7913 1992 230′.42—dc20 92-10128 F T RANCIS URRETIN Photograph from the frontispiece of volume 1 of Turretin’s Institutio theologiae elencticae (1696), courtesy of La Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève. To SHARON LYNN Quam pulchra es amica mea! Quam pulchra es! Quam pulchra es, et quam decora, Carissima, in deliciis! Primogenito filio, J. T. et Primogenitae filiae, Kristin Laudemus novissimum Agnum! Meo filio, Bryan et Meae filiae, Autumn Laudemus novissimum Pastorem! T C ABLE OF ONTENTS Tables of Abbreviations and Transliteration Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments Turretin’s Dedication Turretin’s Preface to the Reader F T : T IRST OPIC HEOLOGY Question I. Should the word “theology” be used in the Christian schools, and in how many ways can it be understood? II. Whether there is a theology and its divisions III. Whether natural theology may be granted IV. Is natural theology sufficient for salvation; or is there a common religion by which all promiscuously may be saved? We deny against the Socinians and Remonstrants THE OBJECT OF THEOLOGY V. Are God and divine things the objects of theology? We affirm THE GENUS OF THEOLOGY VI. What is the genus of theology? VII. Is theology theoretical or practical? VIII. Is human reason the principle and rule by which the doctrines of the Christian religion and theology (which are the objects of faith) ought to be measured? We deny against the Socinians IX. Does any judgment belong to reason in matters of faith? Or is there no use at all for it? X. May the judgment of contradiction be allowed to human reason in matters of faith? We affirm
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