268 THE REFORMATION IN FRENCH SWITZERLAND.
1. ExEGETiCAL WRITINGS. Commentaries on the Pentateuch and Joshua, on the Psalms, on the Larger and Minor Prophets ; Homilies on First Samuel and Job ; Commentaries on all the books of the New Testament, except the Apocalypse. They form the great body of his writings.^
2. Doctrinal. The Institutes (Latin and French), first published at Basel, 1536 ; 2d ed., Strassburg, 1539 ; 5th Latin ed., Geneva, 1559.^
Minor doctrinal works : Three Catechisms, 1537, 1542, and 1545 ; On the Lord's Supper (Latin and French), 1541 ; the Consensus Tigurinus, 1549 and 1551 (in both languages) ; the Consensus Genevensis (Latin and French), 1552 ; the Gallican Confession (Latin and French), 1559 and 1562.^
3. Polemical and Apologetic*
(a) Against the Roman Church : Response to Cardinal Sadoletus, 1539 ; Against Pighius, on Free-will, 1543 ; On the Worship of ReHcs, 1543 ; Against the Faculty of the Sorbonne, 1544; On the Necessity of a Reformation, 1544; Against the Council of Trent, 1547.
(6) Against the Anabaptists : On the Sleep of the Soul (Psychopannj'-chia), 1534 ; Brief Instruction against the Errors of the Sect of the Anabaptists, 1544.
(c) Against the Libertines : Adversus fanaticam et furiosam sectam Lihertinorum qui se Spirituales vocant (also in French), 1545.
(c?) Against the Anti-Trinitarians : Defensio ortliodoxce fidei 8. Tri7iitatis adversus prodigiosos errores Serveti, 1554; Re-
1 Opera, vols. XXIII.-XLIV., contain the Old Testament Commentaries. Those on the New Testament have been separately edited in Latin by Tholuck, 1833-'38, 7 vols. 8°.
2 Ibid. vols. I.-IV. (1863-'66). Latin and French. There are three English translations of the Institittes, one by Thomas Norton (London, 1561, etc.), another by John Allen (London, 1813, 3d ed. 1844, in 2 vols.), a third by Henry Beveridge (Edinburgh, 1845-'46, 3 vols.). The work was also translated into Italian, Spanish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Greek, and other languages. A new French ed. by Fr. Baumgartner, Gen. 1888.
2 Tractatus theologici minores, in Opera, vol. V., etc. * Vols. V.-IX.
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sponsum ad Qucestioties Gr. Blandatrce^ 1558 ; Adversus Valentinum Grentilein, 1561 ; Meisjjonsum ad nobiles Fratres Polonos (Socinians) de controversia Mediaforis, 1561 ; Brevis admonitio ad Fratres Polonos ne triplicem in Deo essentiam pro tribus personis imaginando tres sibi Beos fabricent, 1563.
(e) Defence of the Doctrine of Predestination against Bolsec and Castellio, 1554 and 1557.
(/) Defence of the Doctrine of the Lord's Supper against the Calumnies of Joachim Westphal, a Lutheran fanatic (two Befensiones and an Admonitlo ultima^, 1555, 1556, 1557, and a tract on tlie same subject against Hesshus (^ad discutiendas Heshusii nebulas^, 1561.
4. Ecclesiastical and Liturgical. Ordinances of the Church of Geneva, 1537 ; Project of Ecclesiastical Ordinances, 1541 ; Formula of Oath prescribed to Ministers, 1542 ; Order of Marriage, 1545 ; Visitation of the Churches in the Country, 1546 ; Order of Baptism, 1551 ; Academic Laws, 1559 ; Ecclesiastical Ordinances, and Academic Laws, 1561 ; Liturgical Prayers. ^
5. Sermons and Homilies. They are very numerous, and were mostly taken down by auditors.'^
6. Minor Treatises. His academic oration, for Cop in Paris, 1533 ; Against Astrology, 1549 ; On Certain Scandals, 1550, etc.
7. CoNSiLiA on various doctrinal and polemical subjects.
8. Letters. Calvin's correspondence was enormous, and fills ten volumes in the last edition of his works.^
1 Vol. X. Pars I. (1871), pp. 5-146, and vol. VI. 161-210.
2 Henry (II. 198) says that the Geneva library contains forty-four manuscript volumes of sermons of Calvin ; but the librarian Diodati informed him afterwards (III. Preface, p. viii.) that there are only nine volumes left, namely, the sermons between the years 1549-51, 1555-56, 1560-61. The sermons on the Decalogue, on Deuteronomy, on Job, on the Sacrifice of Abraham, and many others were published during his life-time.
3 Vols. -X.-XX. The Strassburg editors give in all 4271 letters of Calvin and to Calvin. Herminjard has published so far his correspondence down to 1542 (the seventh volume appeared in 1886).