Institutes of Elenctic Theology

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

Volumes 1–3

First Through Twentieth Topics

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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)

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